Aalayah Girl
How popular is Aalayah?
#3,028 girl name in 2025
54 baby girls were named Aalayah in the US in 2025, making it the 3028th most popular girl name.
Aalayah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,028 for girls (▲ 197 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 54 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-23% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,555 in 2015, #2,966 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (79 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,285 in 2019 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Aalayah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Alaia family of names ranked #74 for girls in 2025 (#70 the year before), with 4,134 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alaia | 2,318 | 56% |
| Alayah | 756 | 18% |
| Alaya | 834 | 20% |
| Alaiah | 121 | 3% |
| Aalayah | 54 | 1% |
| Ahlaya | 16 | 0% |
| Allayah | 11 | 0% |
| Aalaya | 15 | 0% |
| Ahlayah | 9 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Aalayah is most popular
Babies named Aalayah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (42 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (33 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
Aalayah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Aalayah
Questions
- Is Aalayah a boy or girl name?
- Aalayah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Aalayah were girls.
- How popular is the name Aalayah?
- 54 baby girls were named Aalayah in the US in 2025, making it the 3028th most popular girl name.
- When was Aalayah most popular?
- Aalayah peaked in 2019, when 79 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,285 in 2019.
- How many people are named Aalayah?
- 1,276 babies have been named Aalayah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,268 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Aalayah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Aalayah was most common in Florida, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.