# Alayah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alayah/  
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 | 12,228 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 12,228 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,040, 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 | 373 | 740 |
| 2012 | 424 | 668 |
| 2013 | 463 | 605 |
| 2014 | 553 | 557 |
| 2015 | 537 | 572 |
| 2016 | 580 | 536 |
| 2017 | 578 | 534 |
| 2018 | 592 | 530 |
| 2019 | 899 | 351 |
| 2020 | 1,136 | 278 |
| 2021 | 1,004 | 325 |
| 2022 | 866 | 367 |
| 2023 | 793 | 387 |
| 2024 | 752 | 416 |
| 2025 | 756 | 412 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 1,729 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,991 |
| 2013 | 32 | 1,098 |
| 2014 | 31 | 1,120 |
| 2015 | 32 | 1,088 |
| 2016 | 33 | 1,057 |
| 2017 | 68 | 616 |
| 2018 | 71 | 583 |
| 2019 | 73 | 554 |
| 2020 | 81 | 501 |
| 2021 | 110 | 404 |
| 2022 | 101 | 419 |
| 2023 | 102 | 404 |
| 2024 | 125 | 351 |
| 2025 | 109 | 388 |

## 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.