girls:
360 births since 1998
#5356 (6th percentile)
overall:
360 births since 1998
#7379 (5th percentile)
The name Alayja is the #7,379 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 360 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 4.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,356 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 360 births since 1998.
Alayja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for girls in 1998).
For girls, Alayja reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #927) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alayja ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 18.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alayja".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Alayja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Alayja is pronounced as uh-LAY-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-LAY-juh, at 12.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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