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Alaiah

Girl · a-LYE-a · Modern

Alaiah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,692nd for girls in the US (121 babies).

Where does Alaiah come from?

Modern: modern spelling, probably of Alaia or Aaliyah

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a-LYE-a

Is Alaiah a girl's or a boy's name?

Alaiah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 121 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alaiah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,692among girls
Babies in 2025
121about 1 in 13,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 4% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 121 girls in the US were named Alaiah, making it the 1,692nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,455th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 148 girls. It first appears in the records in 2002.

Half of all the girls named Alaiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,943 girls in the US were given Alaiah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #110, up from #1,692 for this spelling alone.

2002Busiest: 148 in 20202025
Alaiah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025121#1,692
202494#2,053
2023112#1,802
202299#1,974
2021124#1,676
2020148#1,455
2019119#1,740
201846#3,395
201737#3,995
201646#3,411
201538#3,914
201422#5,795
201319#6,459
201223#5,707
201115#7,779
201016#7,510
200918#7,063
200815#8,105
200712#9,535
20066#15,147
20059#10,915
20040–
20036#13,837
200211#8,831

Names like Alaiah

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