Alaiya

What Alaiya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alaiya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 7 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alaiya?

US: Rising: up from #3092 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2945 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 396 girls got the name (#721 that year). First in the US records in 1995.

How common

• About 1 in 4,686 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,030 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VA (0.5 per 1,000 girls), GA (0.46 per 1,000 girls), FL (0.4 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alaiya is #792 in the US and #845 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alaiya were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Aliyah1,188 US · 125 E&W
• Alaya834 US · 188 E&W
• Alayah756 US · 109 E&W
• Aliya330 US · 80 E&W
• Alya167 US · 70 E&W
• Elaya89 US · 71 E&W
• Alaiyah131 US · 17 E&W
• Aleya105 US · 14 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alaiya

Girls

• Journee#258Editor’s note 1,198 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Josie#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*

For a brother

• Crew#256“weir”^*
• Kairo#226Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 6 babies
• River#111From the word “river”^*
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alaiya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.