girls:
12.9k births since 1986
#1376 (76th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 2020
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
12.9k births since 1986
#2315 (70th percentile)
The name Alaia is the #2,315 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,934 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 70.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,376 (75.9% percentile) for all time with 12,923 births since 1986. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2020.
Alaia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for girls and 2020 for boys). Birth data for Alaia is available in 31 out of the 38 years between 1986 and 2023 (31 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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.
The name Alaia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alaia reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 87.7% percentile (ranked #117) with 1,315 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 1,315 births per million (ranked 87.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alaia is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #117 (87.7% percentile) with 1,315 births per million.
For boys, Alaia reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #900) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alaia".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alaia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Alaia is pronounced as uh-LAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LAY-uh, at 25.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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