Alayna
#332 for girls in 2025, 927 births · Last seen for boys in 2015 at #12,086
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 1,550 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 35,589since 1945
Alayna over time
Rank among girls' names. Alayna 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #332 | 927 | — | |
| 2024 | #311 | 988 | — | |
| 2023 | #316 | 982 | — | |
| 2022 | #273 | 1,163 | — | |
| 2021 | #263 | 1,183 | — | |
| 2020 | #248 | 1,212 | — | |
| 2019 | #222 | 1,396 | — | |
| 2018 | #235 | 1,366 | — | |
| 2017 | #229 | 1,378 | — | |
| 2016 | #221 | 1,444 | — | |
| 2015 | #223 | 1,464 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #217 | 1,549 | — | |
| 2013 | #206 | 1,563 | — | |
| 2012 | #201 | 1,550 | — | |
| 2011 | #225 | 1,409 | — | |
| 2010 | #236 | 1,333 | — | |
| 2009 | #277 | 1,187 | — | |
| 2008 | #285 | 1,177 | — | |
| 2007 | #273 | 1,248 | — | |
| 2006 | #271 | 1,217 | — | |
| 2005 | #288 | 1,149 | — | |
| 2004 | #303 | 1,062 | — | |
| 2003 | #341 | 910 | — | |
| 2002 | #380 | 780 | — | |
| 2001 | #403 | 720 | — | |
| 2000 | #425 | 660 | — | |
| 1999 | #459 | 578 | — | |
| 1998 | #568 | 431 | — | |
| 1997 | #647 | 342 | — | |
| 1996 | #630 | 355 | — | |
| 1995 | #650 | 331 | — | |
| 1994 | #653 | 329 | — | |
| 1993 | #719 | 296 | — | |
| 1992 | #852 | 234 | — | |
| 1991 | #894 | 219 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,080 | 163 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,213 | 133 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,181 | 128 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,300 | 107 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,272 | 106 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,429 | 88 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,459 | 79 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,644 | 67 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,735 | 64 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,445 | 84 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,605 | 72 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,147 | 46 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,191 | 42 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,366 | 22 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,212 | 21 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,632 | 22 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,494 | 9 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
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| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alayna! It came in at #4,556, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Alayna is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#506 · 1 in 3,756
- Washington#610 · 1 in 4,534
- Michigan#702 · 1 in 7,066
- Louisiana#736 · 1 in 5,639
- Texas#1,216 · 1 in 13,167
Best ever in a state: #71 in South Dakota, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #506 | 5 | 1 in 3,756 |
| Washington | #610 | 6 | 1 in 4,534 |
| Michigan | #702 | 8 | 1 in 7,066 |
| Louisiana | #736 | 5 | 1 in 5,639 |
| Texas | #1,216 | 10 | 1 in 13,167 |
| New York | #1,382 | 7 | 1 in 15,499 |
| California | #2,083 | 7 | 1 in 29,671 |
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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 Alayna
- 21 spots since 2024 (#311 → #332)
- 84 spots since 2020 (#248 → #332)
- 109 spots since 2015 (#223 → #332)
- Biggest jump: 186 spots in 1991 (#1,080 → #894)
- Biggest drop: 43 spots in 2023 (#273 → #316)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 2012 at #201 (1,550 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1991–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,123 girls born in 2013 were named Alayna (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,734 girls born in 2025 (0.06%)
- Its best rank, #201 in 2012, was only 1 in 1,136 (0.09%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.6% of all girls named Alayna (14,452) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,556 (1945) | #4,556 |
| 1950s | 11 | #5,408 (1958) | #5,411 |
| 1960s | 105 | #2,632 (1967) | #4,169 |
| 1970s | 245 | #2,147 (1979) | #3,233 |
| 1980s | 928 | #1,181 (1988) | #1,428 |
| 1990s | 3,278 | #459 (1999) | #715 |
| 2000s | 10,110 | #271 (2006) | #325 |
| 2010s | 14,452 | #201 (2012) | #222 |
| 2020s | 6,455 | #248 (2020) | #291 |
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.
Alayna in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 16,184 of them was named Alayna, which outranked 90.1% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,260Sharlene107
- #1,260Shena107
- #1,260Timothy107
- #1,272Alayna106
- #1,272Aleshia106
- #1,272Angelia106
- #1,272Daniele106
- #1,282Addie105
- #1,282Cassy105
- #1,282Charde105
Tied with 9 names at #1,272; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.