How rare is the name Alaya?

5,173 people in the United States have the first name Alaya, about 1 in 58,386. It ranks #3,815 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

ALAYA

#3,815

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,173
About
1 in 58,386
This common or more
83.1%
Who bears it

Of the 5,173 people named Alaya, 48.2% reported their origin as Black, 19.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 17% as White. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Alaya peaked in 2020, when 915 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19792025
Peak year
2020
Births that year
915
In 2025*
834 ▼9%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,095 babies have been given the name since 1979. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Alaya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #762. The largest share of babies named Alaya, 74.3%, were born in 2013 or later.

1970s#24,5405
1980s#15,91341
1990s#5,739324
2000s#2,3721,616
2010s#1,3294,065
2020s#7625,044
Generation X 1965–800%
Millennials 1981–961.9%
Generation Z 1997–1223.7%
2013 and later74.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Alaya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alaya has been most common in Florida (2.3×), Nevada (2.1×), and Louisiana (1.9×), and least common in Iowa (0.27×).

9,714 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Alaya

1 other first name also has 5,173 people.

#3,815 Aviana · 5,173

Either side of Alaya

#3,813 Nikola · 5,177#3,814 Rishi · 5,176#3,815 Aviana · 5,173#3,817 Racquel · 5,172

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Alaya, most common first.

#2,596 Aliya · 9,253#3,773 Alayah · 5,262#4,333 Alaa · 4,362#5,385 Alaia · 3,199#8,510 Aleya · 1,702#9,249 Alya · 1,517#13,289 Alaiya · 913#24,456 Alayia · 394

Also a last name

As a last name, Alaya ranks #83,936 of 156,621, with 241 people. See Alaya as a last name

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