Aalayah
#3,028 for girls in 2025, 54 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 79 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,276since 1994
Aalayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aalayah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,028 | 54 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 |
| 2023 | #2,975 | 56 |
| 2022 | #2,530 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,586 | 67 |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 |
| 2019 | #2,285 | 79 |
| 2018 | #2,905 | 57 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 |
| 2016 | #2,643 | 66 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 |
| 2012 | #2,832 | 61 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 |
| 2010 | #4,107 | 36 |
| 2009 | #3,409 | 48 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
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| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
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| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aalayah! It came in at #6,672, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Aalayah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,715 · 1 in 13,425
- Florida#2,080 · 1 in 16,720
- Texas#2,324 · 1 in 19,435
Best ever in a state: #700 in Louisiana, 2012.
Show every state
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| California | #1,715 | 13 | 1 in 13,425 |
| Florida | #2,080 | 5 | 1 in 16,720 |
| Texas | #2,324 | 8 | 1 in 19,435 |
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See more about Aalayah
- 197 spots since 2024 (#3,225 → #3,028)
- 62 spots since 2020 (#2,966 → #3,028)
- 473 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #3,028)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2019 at #2,285 (79 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,245 girls born in 2019 were named Aalayah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,764 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.9% of all girls named Aalayah (599) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 49 | #5,868 (1997) | #7,767 |
| 2000s | 278 | #3,409 (2009) | #5,111 |
| 2010s | 599 | #2,285 (2019) | #2,914 |
| 2020s | 350 | #2,530 (2022) | #2,885 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aalayah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 24,490 of them was named Aalayah, which outranked 85.4% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 21 names at #2,586; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.