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Alaya

Meaning
Joyful
Origin
Variant of Alaia (from Basque)

Girl's name · #368 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

Popularity over time

Alaya is near its high-water mark: it reached #338 in 2020 and still ranked #368 in 2025. About 11,000 girls have carried it since 1979.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 39 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#101 in Ecuador (2025) · #169 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #248 in England & Wales (2025) · #387 in Switzerland (2025) · #388 in Scotland (2025) · #500 in Poland (2025) · #568 in Austria (2025) · #725 in Ireland (2025) · #782 in Sweden (2025) · #817 in France (2025) · #845 in Netherlands (2025) · #859 in Belgium (2025) and 1 more.

Famous Alayas

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Alaia (#117), Alayah (#412), and Alaiya (#792), Alaya would rank around #49 with about 4,300 births last year — the newborns split about 54/20/18/8 across Alaia, Alaya, Alayah, and Alaiya.

Similar names: Alaiya · Kalani · Alayna · Malaya · Charli · Naya

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