Alayia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-LAY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #3,388 for girls
Alayia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 3,388th for girls in the US (45 babies).
Where does Alayia come from?
Modern: modern coinage like Alaya and Aleah
Is Alayia a girl's or a boy's name?
Alayia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 45 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alayia in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 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, 4 girls in the UK were named Alayia, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 5 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Alayia in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
How popular is Alayia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,388th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 45 about 1 in 36,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 19% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 45 girls in the US were named Alayia, making it the 3,388th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,399th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 58 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Alayia in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 69 girls in the US were given Alayia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,172, up from #3,388 for this spelling alone.
- Alayia 45
- Alayiah 24
Alayia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,388 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,962 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,189 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,415 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,613 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,399 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,856 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,738 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,794 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 21 | #5,991 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,705 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,706 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,952 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,880 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Names like Alayia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abeeha, Afiya, Alaiyah, Aaliyah, Afifa, Aafiyah, Afia, Safiya, Zaniyah, Safa, Aakifah, Azeemah
Other spellings of Alayia
Names related to Alayia
Alaya, Alaia, Alayah, Aliya, Alaiya, Aaliya, Alaa, Aaila, Alaiah, Alahia
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Alayia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alayia, updated 20 October 2026.