Alaya

“Variant of Alaia — Joyful” — Basque (via Alaia) origin

Girl's name · #368 in the US (2025) · 2020s

Alaya is near its high-water mark: it reached #338 in 2020 and still ranked #368 in 2025. About 11,000 girls have carried it since 1979. Together with its spelling variants Alaia (#117), Alayah (#412), and Alaiya (#792), Alaya would rank around #49 with about 4,300 births last year — the newborns split about 54/20/18/8 across Alaia, Alaya, Alayah, and Alaiya.

Around the world: about 1 in 680 girls in Puerto Rico (2025) · about 1 in 1,300 girls in England & Wales (2025) · about 1 in 1,700 girls in Switzerland (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 39 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Alayas

Alaya F — American actress (born 1997)
Alaya Dawn Johnson — American writer

Similar names: Alaiya · Kalani · Alayna · Malaya · Charli · Kaia

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