Alaijah
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 44 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 735since 1996
Alaijah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alaijah has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 | — | |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | — | |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,002 | 37 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,848 | 41 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,685 | 30 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,621 | 26 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,447 | 27 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alaijah! It came in at #7,130, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.
Where Alaijah is popular in 2005
No state had 5 or more girls named Alaijah in 2005, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alaijah
- 1,430 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #8,362)
- 1,439 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #8,362)
- 1,910 spots since 2015 (#6,452 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2004 at #3,391 (44 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 41,733 girls born in 2004 were named Alaijah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.8% of all girls named Alaijah (329) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 50 | #6,360 (1998) | #7,444 |
| 2000s | 329 | #3,391 (2004) | #4,348 |
| 2010s | 263 | #3,711 (2012) | #5,543 |
| 2020s | 93 | #6,174 (2021) | #7,153 |
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.
Alaijah in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 52,795 of them was named Alaijah, which outranked 79.0% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,942Vittoria36
- #3,942Yasmina36
- #3,942Zamaria36
- #4,029Alaijah35
- #4,029Abilene35
- #4,029Aleeyah35
- #4,029Amera35
- #4,118Addy34
- #4,118Agustina34
- #4,118Alaiyah34
Tied with 88 names at #4,029; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.