girls:
9.4k births since 1979
#1667 (71st percentile)
overall:
9.4k births since 1979
#2778 (64th percentile)
The name Alaya is the #2,778 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,384 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 64.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,667 (70.8% percentile) for all time with 9,384 births since 1979.
Alaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Alaya is available in 40 out of the 45 years between 1979 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, Alaya reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 67.1% percentile (ranked #310) with 516 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 516 births per million (ranked 67.1% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alaya ranks #379 for girls (60.0% percentile) with 425 births per million, which is 82.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alaya".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Alaya is pronounced as uh-LAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LAI-uh, at 33.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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