Alajah
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 47 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 693since 1995
Alajah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alajah 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 |
| 2009 | #3,619 | 44 |
| 2008 | #4,089 | 38 |
| 2007 | #3,983 | 39 |
| 2006 | #3,414 | 47 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | — | |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | — | |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | — | |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Alajah! It came in at #13,386, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2020, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alajah is popular in 2002
No state had 5 or more girls named Alajah in 2002, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alajah
- 2,937 spots since 2024 (#10,271 → #13,208)
- 8,081 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2005 at #3,257 (47 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,316 girls born in 2005 were named Alajah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 52.7% of all girls named Alajah (365) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 66 | #3,804 (1999) | #9,259 |
| 2000s | 365 | #3,257 (2005) | #3,972 |
| 2010s | 215 | #3,889 (2010) | #6,688 |
| 2020s | 47 | #8,464 (2021) | #10,248 |
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.
Alajah in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 56,153 of them was named Alajah, which outranked 78.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,889Vanity33
- #3,889Xandria33
- #3,889Yovana33
- #3,978Alajah32
- #3,978Adalynn32
- #3,978Amairani32
- #3,978Amisha32
- #4,071Adreana31
- #4,071Ailin31
- #4,071Antonina31
Tied with 92 names at #3,978; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.