Alaylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAY-la
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Alaylah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
What does Alaylah mean?
Modern: spelling of Alayla; Layla with an added A-
An elaboration of Layla, which comes from Arabic layla, 'night'.
Meaning borrowed from Alayla.
Is Alaylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Alaylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alaylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,115among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Alaylah, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,310th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Alaylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 83 girls in the US were given Alaylah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,925, up from #6,115 for this spelling alone.
- Alayla 64
- Alaylah 19
Alaylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,981 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,310 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,766 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,657 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,795 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
Names like Alaylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah Aziyah Zaliyah Alaiyah Hadassah Aaliyah Kaliyah Jaliyah Kamiyah Azylah Nusaybah Amoura
Other spellings of Alaylah
Names related to Alaylah
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, “Alaylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alaylah, updated 20 October 2026.