Alyana
Alyana was given to 143 girls in 2025, #1,493 among girls’ names; 2,179 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Alyana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alyana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alyana?
#1,493 among girls’ names, 2025
Alyana rose from #2,060 in 2015 to #1,493 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 53.2 to 89.0 per million.
143 babies in 2025, the peak
Alyana peaked in 2025, when 143 girls were given it, #1,493 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 74 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 143 | #1,493 | 89.0 |
| 2024 | 74 | #2,436 | 45.7 |
| 2023 | 93 | #2,076 | 58.0 |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,123 | 54.9 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,640 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 77 | #2,303 | 47.6 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,307 | 46.5 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,304 | 46.4 |
| 2017 | 111 | #1,842 | 64.3 |
| 2016 | 99 | #1,997 | 55.9 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,060 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,177 | 48.7 |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,902 | 59.8 |
| 2012 | 97 | #2,003 | 55.1 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,953 | 57.4 |
| 2010 | 81 | #2,343 | 45.6 |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,359 | 44.6 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,512 | 39.7 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,511 | 38.5 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,419 | 40.5 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,755 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,651 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,921 | 28.5 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,334 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,631 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,293 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,581 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,368 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,227 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,738 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,606 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,838 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,591 | 4.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,453 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alyana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alyana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alyana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alyana, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,179 Americans ever recorded as Alyana. The median Alyana alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,572 people named Alyana (1,568 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,644 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 925 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Alyana born?
The states with the most babies named Alyana are Texas, California and New York, with 76% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 31 | #918 | 1.6× |
| California | 24 | #1,087 | 1.1× |
| New York | 19 | #832 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 16 | #960 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,146 | 0.2× |
Where Alyana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alyana is most over-represented in Texas: since 1990 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alyana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Alyana?
Alyana is a less common spelling of Aliana: SSA has recorded 2,179 Alyana and 9,065 Aliana since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 263,982 babies since 1880, Alyana is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 143 of their 10,071 babies (1.4%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alyana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alyana and names like it
- Compare Alyana and AlianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlyana peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alyana since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Alyana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alyana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.