Alayla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #2,691 for girls
Alayla is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,691st for girls in the US (64 babies).
What does Alayla mean?
Modern: Layla with an added A-
An elaboration of Layla, which comes from Arabic layla, 'night'.
Is Alayla a girl's or a boy's name?
Alayla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 64 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alayla in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 8 girls.
Alayla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
How popular is Alayla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,691among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 64about 1 in 25,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 64 girls in the US were named Alayla, making it the 2,691st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,170th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 117 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Alayla in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 83 girls in the US were given Alayla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,925, up from #2,691 for this spelling alone.
- Alayla 64
- Alaylah 19
Alayla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,691 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,462 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,730 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,756 |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,715 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,170 |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,999 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,813 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,779 |
| 2016 | 90 | #2,149 |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,209 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,176 |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,083 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,373 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,298 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,451 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,530 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,630 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,750 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,887 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,114 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,440 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,586 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
Names like Alayla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Amira Abeeha Ayra Ayla Aaliyah Hafsa Khadija Aiza Ayah Hiba Amaya
Other spellings of Alayla
Names related to Alayla
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, “Alayla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alayla, updated 20 October 2026.