How rare is the name Alayna?

25,758 people in the United States have the first name Alayna, about 1 in 11,726. It ranks #1,378 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALAYNA

#1,378

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
25,758
About
1 in 11,726
This common or more
74.2%
Who bears it

Of the 25,758 people named Alayna, 65.5% reported their origin as White, 15.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.2% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Alayna peaked in 2013, when 1,563 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19452025
Peak year
2013
Births that year
1,563
In 2025*
927 ▼41%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 35,594 babies have been given the name since 1945. 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.

Alayna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #485. The largest share of babies named Alayna, 46.7%, were born in 2013 or later.

1940s#12,5745
1950s#12,55611
1960s#6,301105
1970s#4,688245
1980s#2,278928
1990s#1,2453,278
2000s#62510,110
2010s#48514,457
2020s#6206,455
Silent Generation 1928–450%
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–801.1%
Millennials 1981–967.8%
Generation Z 1997–1244.3%
2013 and later46.7%

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 Alayna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Alayna has been most common in Nevada (1.9×), Minnesota (1.6×), and Indiana (1.5×), and least common in New Hampshire (0.3×).

33,585 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.

Spelled almost the same

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

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