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 | |
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| 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 |
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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 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,501 · 1 in 10,279
Best ever in a state: #386 in Louisiana, 2009.
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| Georgia | #1,501 | 5 | 1 in 10,279 |
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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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 39,316 of them was named Alajah, which outranked 83.0% 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).
- #3,212Saraya48
- #3,212Sera48
- #3,212Yelena48
- #3,257Alajah47
- #3,257Abbagail47
- #3,257Adah47
- #3,257Aidyn47
- #3,317Aaliah46
- #3,317Adrionna46
- #3,317Aislin46
Tied with 59 names at #3,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.