Alaya Girl
How popular is Alaya?
#368 girl name in 2025
834 baby girls were named Alaya in the US in 2025, making it the 368th most popular girl name.
Alaya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #368 for girls (▼ 6 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 834 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+114% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #728 in 2015, #338 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2020 (915 girls) |
| Highest rank | #338 in 2020 |
| First recorded | 1979 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Alaya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Alaia family of names ranked #74 for girls in 2025 (#70 the year before), with 4,134 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alaia | 2,318 | 56% |
| Alayah | 756 | 18% |
| Alaya | 834 | 20% |
| Alaiah | 121 | 3% |
| Aalayah | 54 | 1% |
| Ahlaya | 16 | 0% |
| Allayah | 11 | 0% |
| Aalaya | 15 | 0% |
| Ahlayah | 9 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Alaya is most popular
Babies named Alaya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Mexico: 1.2 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Delaware: 1.1 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Mississippi: 1.1 per 1,000 (51 girls)
- Nevada: 1.0 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.9 per 1,000 (77 girls)
Alaya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1980s | 41 | #5,909 |
| 1990s | 324 | #2,478 |
| 2000s | 1,616 | #907 |
| 2010s | 4,065 | #394 |
| 2020s | 5,044 | #338 |
Girl names about as popular as Alaya
Questions
- Is Alaya a boy or girl name?
- Alaya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Alaya were girls.
- How popular is the name Alaya?
- 834 baby girls were named Alaya in the US in 2025, making it the 368th most popular girl name.
- When was Alaya most popular?
- Alaya peaked in 2020, when 915 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #338 in 2020.
- How many people are named Alaya?
- 11,095 babies have been named Alaya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 11,040 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 7.
- Where is Alaya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Alaya was most common in New Mexico, at 1.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.