Alailah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAI-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Alailah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Alailah come from?
Modern: spelling of Alaila; modern coinage, perhaps Layla with A- added
Meaning borrowed from Alaila.
Is Alailah a girl's or a boy's name?
Alailah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alailah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Alailah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Alailah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alailah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
Names like Alailah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Aziyah, Aaliyah, Zaliyah, Hadassah, Kaliyah, Jaliyah, Azylah, Kamiyah, Nusaybah, Naziyah, Amoura
Names related to Alailah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Alailah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alailah, updated 20 October 2026.