girls:
216 births since 2001
#5500 (4th percentile)
overall:
216 births since 2001
#7523 (3rd percentile)
The name Aalaya is the #7,523 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 216 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 2.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,500 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 216 births since 2001.
Aalaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for girls in 2001). Birth data for Aalaya is available in 22 out of the 23 years between 2001 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Aalaya reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #932) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aalaya ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 69.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aalaya".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Aalaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.6% confident that Aalaya is pronounced as AH-lay-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LAY-uh, at 15.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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