Alayah
#412 for girls in 2025, 756 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 1,136 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,228since 1992
Alayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alayah has never cracked the top 200 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 | #412 | 756 |
| 2024 | #416 | 752 |
| 2023 | #386 | 793 |
| 2022 | #367 | 866 |
| 2021 | #325 | 1,004 |
| 2020 | #278 | 1,136 |
| 2019 | #351 | 899 |
| 2018 | #530 | 592 |
| 2017 | #534 | 578 |
| 2016 | #536 | 580 |
| 2015 | #572 | 537 |
| 2014 | #557 | 553 |
| 2013 | #605 | 463 |
| 2012 | #668 | 424 |
| 2011 | #740 | 373 |
| 2010 | #847 | 317 |
| 2009 | #1,007 | 262 |
| 2008 | #1,113 | 232 |
| 2007 | #1,230 | 202 |
| 2006 | #1,454 | 153 |
| 2005 | #1,508 | 138 |
| 2004 | #1,811 | 105 |
| 2003 | #2,001 | 90 |
| 2002 | #1,915 | 92 |
| 2001 | #2,379 | 66 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 |
| 1999 | #3,148 | 41 |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 |
| 1997 | #3,626 | 31 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
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| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alayah! It came in at #8,065, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alayah
- 4 spots since 2024 (#416 → #412)
- 134 spots since 2020 (#278 → #412)
- 160 spots since 2015 (#572 → #412)
- Biggest jump: 179 spots in 2019 (#530 → #351)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 2021 (#278 → #325)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2020 at #278 (1,136 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,423 girls born in 2020 were named Alayah (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,126 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 43.5% of all girls named Alayah (5,316) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 208 | #3,087 (1995) | #4,175 |
| 2000s | 1,397 | #1,007 (2009) | #1,701 |
| 2010s | 5,316 | #351 (2019) | #594 |
| 2020s | 5,307 | #278 (2020) | #364 |
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.
Alayah in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 49,082 of them was named Alayah, which outranked 79.8% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,301Valorie37
- #3,301Yakira37
- #3,301Zoya37
- #3,353Alayah36
- #3,353Adelle36
- #3,353Annastasia36
- #3,353Avianna36
- #3,426Alida35
- #3,426Amaria35
- #3,426Amariah35
Tied with 72 names at #3,353; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.