Alaiyah
#1,592 for girls in 2025, 131 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 206 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,115since 1994
Alaiyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alaiyah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,592 | 131 |
| 2024 | #1,472 | 148 |
| 2023 | #1,302 | 175 |
| 2022 | #1,371 | 169 |
| 2021 | #1,181 | 206 |
| 2020 | #1,287 | 173 |
| 2019 | #1,302 | 176 |
| 2018 | #1,799 | 113 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 |
| 2016 | #2,517 | 71 |
| 2015 | #2,209 | 85 |
| 2014 | #2,139 | 89 |
| 2013 | #2,903 | 58 |
| 2012 | #2,734 | 64 |
| 2011 | #2,838 | 61 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 |
| 2009 | #3,677 | 43 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 |
| 2005 | #4,118 | 34 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #5,586 | 21 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
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| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alaiyah! It came in at #10,569, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1998, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alaiyah is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#893 · 1 in 5,177
- Virginia#1,133 · 1 in 7,211
- North Carolina#1,320 · 1 in 8,831
- Ohio#1,402 · 1 in 10,320
- Texas#2,233 · 1 in 19,486
Best ever in a state: #527 in South Carolina, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #893 | 8 | 1 in 5,177 |
| Virginia | #1,133 | 5 | 1 in 7,211 |
| North Carolina | #1,320 | 5 | 1 in 8,831 |
| Ohio | #1,402 | 5 | 1 in 10,320 |
| Texas | #2,233 | 8 | 1 in 19,486 |
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See more about Alaiyah
- 120 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,592)
- 305 spots since 2020 (#1,287 → #1,592)
- 617 spots since 2015 (#2,209 → #1,592)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2021 at #1,181 (206 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,965 girls born in 2021 were named Alaiyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,269 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 47.4% of all girls named Alaiyah (1,002) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 38 | #8,334 (1997) | #10,483 |
| 2000s | 230 | #3,677 (2009) | #5,990 |
| 2010s | 845 | #1,302 (2019) | #2,400 |
| 2020s | 1,002 | #1,181 (2021) | #1,368 |
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.
Alaiyah in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
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1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 28,837 of them was named Alaiyah, which outranked 85.5% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,796Shaylynn62
- #2,796Sunshine62
- #2,796Viridiana62
- #2,838Alaiyah61
- #2,838Ahana61
- #2,838Alecia61
- #2,838Aleia61
- #2,868Adah60
- #2,868Ailey60
- #2,868Amarah60
Tied with 29 names at #2,838; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.