Alajah

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births

Peak · girls
2005 · 47 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
693
since 1995

Alajah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Alajah has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202000peak #3,257, 2005girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#13,2086
2024#10,2719
2023#9,61610
2022#9,68010
2021#8,46412
2020
2019#9,11211
2018#12,4647
2017#7,09216
2016#6,66318
2015#5,12726
2014#7,30216
2013#5,01327
2012#4,48632
2011#5,72823
2010#3,88939
2009#3,61944
2008#4,08938
2007#3,98339
2006#3,41447
2005#3,25747
2004#3,74838
2003#4,66827
2002#3,97832
2001#4,56426
2000#4,40027
1999#3,80431
1998#5,79917
1997#13,7245
1996#9,5818
1995#13,3865
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First appearance
1995

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.

See more about Alajah
Momentum · girls
Brand new
  • 2,937 spots since 2024 (#10,271#13,208)
  • 8,081 spots since 2015 (#5,127#13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1995
  • Peaked 2005 at #3,257 (47 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 39,316
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 52.7% of all girls named Alajah (365) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s66#3,804 (1999)#9,259
2000s365#3,257 (2005)#3,972
2010s215#3,889 (2010)#6,688
2020s47#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 2000

girls
#4,400
27 births · 1 in 67,261 girls

Top girls' names in 2000

  1. #1Emily25,959
  2. #2Hannah23,087
  3. #3Madison19,968
  4. #4Ashley18,000
  5. #5Sarah17,715
  6. #6Alexis17,631
  7. #7Samantha17,265
  8. #8Jessica15,711
  9. #9Elizabeth15,117
  10. #10Taylor15,080
  11. #4,400Alajah27
More about 2000

girls

1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 67,261 of them was named Alajah, which outranked 75.1% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Alajah
  1. #4,291Ysabella28
  2. #4,291Yuridia28
  3. #4,291Zoha28
  4. #4,400Alajah27
  5. #4,400Aaryn27
  6. #4,400Aislin27
  7. #4,400Aleecia27
  8. #4,527Aeris26
  9. #4,527Ailene26
  10. #4,527Alayshia26

Tied with 126 names at #4,400; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1999
Risers
  1. 2,528Laisha#3,509#981
  2. 2,131Litzy#2,527#396
  3. 2,096Cielo#2,991#895
  4. 1,864Yamilet#2,703#839
  5. 1,775Nyah#2,567#792
Fallers
  1. 560Tatyanna#951#1,511
  2. 529Jailene#506#1,035
  3. 431Shanice#727#1,158
  4. 384Chantal#921#1,305
  5. 348Infant#658#1,006

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2000