Alayah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Alayah: Recorded since 1997, it reached #298 in 2019, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#298highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
2002	#2540
2004	#3197
2006	#3116
2007	#4294
2008	#4524
2009	#3422
2010	#2843
2011	#1729
2012	#1991
2013	#1098
2014	#1120
2015	#1088
2016	#1057
2017	#616
2018	#583
2019	#554
2020	#501
2021	#404
2022	#419
2023	#404
2024	#351

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

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 22 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #333 among girls in Scotland, #351 among girls in England and Wales, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2019–2023
Highest recorded position: #298 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2019 (recorded 2019–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Alayah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 931 births with the name.

Alayah 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.

Alayah'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	#3824 (1997)	#351 (2024)	#351 (2024)	22 of 28	931 (1997–2024)	125 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#876 (2014)	#357 (2022)	#608 (2025)	8 of 12	43 (2014–2025)	11 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#298 (2019)	#298 (2019)	#328 (2023)	2 of 5	9 (2019–2023)	5 (2019)

Alayah 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 Alayah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	31	6 of 10	5
2010s	378	10 of 10	38
2020sbusiest	519	5 of 10	104

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 104 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 35, from 33 to 68.

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

Alayah 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 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #298 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Alayah'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	#351	125	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#404	102	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#419	101	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#404	110	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#501	81	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#554	73	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#583	71	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#616	68	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1088	32	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1120	31	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1098	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1991	14	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	11	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
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#333	10	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 1997 and 2025, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #298, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 125 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2014, and 27 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.

Alaw · #992, 29y
Alaya · #225, 26y
Alayna · #153, 30y
Alaynah · #1782, 15y

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.

Aylah · #298, 20y
Ivie · #298, 21y
Sage · #298, 25y
Aela · #296, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Amber-Rose · #298, 29y
Atticus · #298, 27y
Bernie · #298, 24y
Haroon · #298, 30y

Alayah was ranked #298 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. 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.

Alayah 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 Alayah without appearing here.

Alayah moved ahead of

Evan Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4524 and #3860 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1729 and #5785.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1991 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1098 and #4739.
Pauline Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2843 and #2589 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1729 and #4764.
Cameron Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1991 and #1428 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1098 and #4050.

Moved ahead of Alayah

Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3197 and #3725 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #3116 and #2137.

Moved the opposite way to Alayah

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Alayah

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayah went from #3824 to #351 and Amalie from #3824 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 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #298 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alayah

Alayah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alayah across 3 official records

Alayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Alayah at a glance

Alayah across 3 official records

Alayah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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