Alaiia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LYE-a
- Origin
- Spanish
- US rank, 2025
- #3,644 for girls
Alaiia is a girls' name of Spanish origin, meaning “joyful, cheerful”. In 2025 it ranked 3,644th for girls in the US (41 babies).
What does Alaiia mean?
Spanish: spelling of Alaia; Basque name, from alai, 'cheerful'
“joyful, cheerful”
Meaning borrowed from Alaia. More on Wiktionary.
Is Alaiia a girl's or a boy's name?
Alaiia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 41 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alaiia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,644th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 41 about 1 in 39,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 62% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 41 girls in the US were named Alaiia, making it the 3,644th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,077th. It first appears in the records in 2015.
2025 had the most girls named Alaiia of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Alaiia in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,943 girls in the US were given Alaiia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #110, up from #3,644 for this spelling alone.
Alaiia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,644 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,471 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,562 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,106 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,077 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
Names like Alaiia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura, Kehlani, Ailany, Amora, Azula, Alara, Analeia, Malani, Alani, Meilani, Alaya, Kaylani
Other spellings of Alaiia
Names related to Alaiia
More Spanish names
Santiago, Lola, Xavier, Amaya, Diego, Rio, Cruz, Elian, Jesus, Ximena, Javier, Esmeralda, Amayah, Reina, Cesar, Sierra
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, “Alaiia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alaiia, updated 20 October 2026.