Alaya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alaya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alaya: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #225, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#225highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#2738
1998	#3848
1999	#2444
2002	#4137
2005	#2438
2006	#5061
2007	#3218
2008	#2721
2009	#2535
2010	#2392
2011	#2025
2012	#1583
2013	#1484
2014	#859
2015	#1088
2016	#861
2017	#400
2018	#513
2019	#382
2020	#288
2021	#280
2022	#282
2023	#258
2024	#225

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #225 among girls in England and Wales, #275 among girls in Scotland, #441 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #225 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Alaya appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,424 births with the name.

Alaya across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Alaya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#225 (2024)	#225 (2024)	25 of 29	1,424 (1996–2024)	212 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2014)	#263 (2019)	#305 (2022)	6 of 9	25 (2014–2022)	6 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#871 (2019)	#441 (2024)	#718 (2025)	7 of 7	38 (2019–2025)	8 (2024)

Alaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alaya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	37	6 of 10	6
2010s	490	10 of 10	49
2020sbusiest	880	5 of 10	176

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 176 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 67, from 43 to 110.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Alaya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #225 in England and Wales in 2024.

Alaya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#225	212	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#258	175	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#282	162	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#280	169	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#288	162	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#382	115	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#513	83	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#400	110	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#861	43	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#859	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1484	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1583	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#305	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#263	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#361	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#441	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#495	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#275	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #225, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 212 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Alastair · #182, 43y
Alaw · #992, 29y
Alayah · #298, 23y
Alayna · #153, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lennie · #224, 30y
Roxy · #224, 28y
Joni · #227, 30y
Kali · #223, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alanah · #225, 31y
Aman · #226, 29y
Bailie · #224, 26y
Cathaoir · #226, 21y

Alaya was ranked #225 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alaya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alaya without appearing here.

Alaya moved ahead of

Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2535 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #5707.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3218 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2392 and #5707.
Francis Compare
In 2008 they stood at #5061 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #2535 and #5556.
Debra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5061 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #2721 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Alaya

Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #5061 and #2137.
Beau Compare
In 2024 they stood at #441 and #736 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #718 and #608.

Moved the opposite way to Alaya

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Alaya

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaya went from #3795 to #225 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #225 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alaya

Alaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alaya across 3 official records

Alaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Alaya across 3 official records

Alaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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