# Alaya (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alaya/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,095 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 11,095 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,612, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 292 | 893 |
| 2012 | 328 | 817 |
| 2013 | 338 | 800 |
| 2014 | 347 | 805 |
| 2015 | 389 | 728 |
| 2016 | 408 | 703 |
| 2017 | 452 | 659 |
| 2018 | 487 | 616 |
| 2019 | 782 | 394 |
| 2020 | 915 | 338 |
| 2021 | 888 | 350 |
| 2022 | 795 | 393 |
| 2023 | 746 | 409 |
| 2024 | 866 | 362 |
| 2025 | 834 | 368 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 2,025 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,583 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,484 |
| 2014 | 44 | 859 |
| 2015 | 32 | 1,088 |
| 2016 | 43 | 861 |
| 2017 | 110 | 400 |
| 2018 | 83 | 513 |
| 2019 | 115 | 382 |
| 2020 | 162 | 288 |
| 2021 | 169 | 280 |
| 2022 | 162 | 282 |
| 2023 | 175 | 258 |
| 2024 | 212 | 225 |
| 2025 | 188 | 248 |

## People named Alaya

- Alaya Dawn Johnson, American writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.