Alaia
#117 for girls in 2025, 2,318 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 2,429 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 17,682since 1986
Alaia over time
Rank among girls' names. Alaia has never cracked the top 100 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 | #117 | 2,318 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #112 | 2,429 | — | |
| 2023 | #120 | 2,305 | — | |
| 2022 | #139 | 2,081 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #128 | 2,219 | — | |
| 2020 | #120 | 2,282 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #184 | 1,604 | — | |
| 2018 | #583 | 527 | — | |
| 2017 | #637 | 461 | — | |
| 2016 | #615 | 487 | — | |
| 2015 | #664 | 429 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,648 | 66 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,452 | 46 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,619 | 44 | — | |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 | — | |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | — | |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | — | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | — | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | — | |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | — | |
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| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alaia! It came in at #9,545, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1991, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Alaia is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Rhode Island#47 · 1 in 181
- New Mexico#47 · 1 in 208
- Florida#56 · 1 in 356
- New York#63 · 1 in 404
- Nevada#72 · 1 in 336
Best ever in a state: #35 in Rhode Island, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #47 | 24 | 1 in 208 |
| Rhode Island | #47 | 15 | 1 in 181 |
| Florida | #56 | 235 | 1 in 356 |
| New York | #63 | 201 | 1 in 404 |
| Nevada | #72 | 29 | 1 in 336 |
| Connecticut | #73 | 37 | 1 in 325 |
| New Jersey | #76 | 93 | 1 in 392 |
| California | #80 | 364 | 1 in 479 |
| Texas | #87 | 310 | 1 in 502 |
| Arizona | #97 | 56 | 1 in 495 |
| Massachusetts | #102 | 53 | 1 in 469 |
| Delaware | #113 | 7 | 1 in 338 |
| Maryland | #123 | 40 | 1 in 553 |
| Pennsylvania | #131 | 79 | 1 in 618 |
| Hawaii | #133 | 6 | 1 in 402 |
| Louisiana | #138 | 33 | 1 in 564 |
| North Carolina | #164 | 60 | 1 in 751 |
| Virginia | #164 | 48 | 1 in 720 |
| Illinois | #179 | 58 | 1 in 835 |
| Colorado | #189 | 29 | 1 in 763 |
| Georgia | #189 | 54 | 1 in 839 |
| New Hampshire | #213 | 5 | 1 in 741 |
| South Carolina | #214 | 21 | 1 in 844 |
| Washington | #215 | 33 | 1 in 894 |
| Oklahoma | #226 | 17 | 1 in 875 |
| Iowa | #235 | 14 | 1 in 835 |
| Wisconsin | #241 | 22 | 1 in 976 |
| Indiana | #242 | 29 | 1 in 979 |
| Kentucky | #259 | 17 | 1 in 1,001 |
| Utah | #260 | 16 | 1 in 1,058 |
| Mississippi | #265 | 11 | 1 in 892 |
| Tennessee | #272 | 28 | 1 in 1,115 |
| Michigan | #280 | 33 | 1 in 1,162 |
| Minnesota | #309 | 18 | 1 in 1,238 |
| Kansas | #317 | 10 | 1 in 1,158 |
| West Virginia | #318 | 5 | 1 in 1,095 |
| Missouri | #335 | 18 | 1 in 1,374 |
| Alabama | #337 | 15 | 1 in 1,272 |
| Ohio | #341 | 33 | 1 in 1,473 |
| Arkansas | #347 | 9 | 1 in 1,209 |
| Nebraska | #356 | 6 | 1 in 1,210 |
| Idaho | #369 | 5 | 1 in 1,285 |
| Oregon | #389 | 9 | 1 in 1,527 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Alaia
- 5 spots since 2024 (#112 → #117)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#120 → #117)
- 547 spots since 2015 (#664 → #117)
- Biggest jump: 1,984 spots in 2015 (#2,648 → #664)
- Biggest drop: 22 spots in 2017 (#615 → #637)
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2024 at #112 (2,429 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 667 girls born in 2024 were named Alaia (0.15%)
- Latest: 1 in 693 girls born in 2025 (0.14%)
- 77.1% of all girls named Alaia (13,634) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #9,545 (1986) | #9,545 |
| 1990s | 42 | #8,334 (1997) | #11,130 |
| 2000s | 230 | #3,619 (2009) | #6,339 |
| 2010s | 3,770 | #184 (2019) | #1,863 |
| 2020s | 13,634 | #112 (2024) | #123 |
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.
Alaia in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 739 of them was named Alaia, which outranked 99.3% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.