girls:
755 births since 1995
#4961 (13th percentile)
overall:
755 births since 1995
#6984 (10th percentile)
The name Alayjah is the #6,984 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 755 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 9.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,961 (13.2% percentile) for all time with 755 births since 1995.
Alayjah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (first recorded for girls in 1995).
For girls, Alayjah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #906) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Alayjah ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 20.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alayjah".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alayjah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.4% confident that Alayjah is pronounced as uh-LAY-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LAI-juh, at 15.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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