Alaya

Where Alaya comes from

The dictionaries list Alaya as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #10,210 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1982
    Alaya Dawn Johnson born
    American writer
  3. 1992
    Alaya Brigui born
    Tunisian association football player
  4. 2020
    Peak, #338
    915 babies named Alaya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Alaya Dawn Johnson · American writer, born 1982
  • Alaya Brigui · Tunisian association football player, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.