Aalaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAY-a
- US rank, 2025
- #7,131 for girls
Aalaya is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).
What does Aalaya mean?
Spelling of Alayah; may be Sanskrit alaya, 'abode', or a modern form of Aaliyah
Sanskrit alaya, 'abode', also appears in the name Himalaya, 'abode of snow'.
Meaning borrowed from Alayah. More on Wiktionary.
Is Aalaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Aalaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aalaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,131st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Aalaya, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2019, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.
Half of all the girls named Aalaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,282 girls in the US were given Aalaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #155, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.
Aalaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,131 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
Names like Aalaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zaya, Zaniyah, Safa, Aziyah, Hadassah, Amira, Zaliyah, Zahara, Zamira, Safiya, Alaiyah
Other spellings of Aalaya
Alaya, Alayah, Aleia, Aleyah, Aleya, Aalayah, Aleiah, Aleeyah, Aaleyah, Allayah, Aleeya
Names related to Aalaya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aalaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aalaya, updated 20 October 2026.