Alaia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Alaia: Recorded since 2004, it reached #262 in 2020, and it stood at #275 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#262highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2004–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598
2006	#5061
2007	#2895
2008	#3005
2009	#5556
2010	#5707
2011	#2025
2012	#2969
2013	#1537
2014	#1204
2015	#1088
2016	#1057
2017	#1219
2018	#990
2019	#402
2020	#262
2021	#292
2022	#270
2023	#306
2024	#275

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 20 of the 21 years from 2004 to 2024.

In 2024: #275 among girls in England and Wales, #333 among girls in Scotland, #337 among girls in Northern Ireland, #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #4598 among girls in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2004–2024
Highest recorded position: #262 among girls in England and Wales, in 2020 (recorded 2004–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #275 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Alaia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 1,155 births with the name.

Alaia 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.

Alaia'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	#4598 (2004)	#262 (2020)	#275 (2024)	20 of 21	1,155 (2004–2024)	181 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#457 (2019)	#457 (2019)	#556 (2024)	6 of 6	37 (2019–2024)	8 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#397 (2020)	#337 (2024)	#337 (2024)	3 of 5	10 (2020–2024)	4 (2024)

Alaia 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 Alaia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	23	5 of 10	5
2010s	305	10 of 10	31
2020sbusiest	827	5 of 10	165

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 165 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 77, from 104 to 181.

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

Alaia 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 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #262 in England and Wales in 2020.

Alaia'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	#275	171	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#306	142	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#270	170	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#292	163	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#262	181	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#402	104	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#990	36	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1219	28	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	#1204	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#464	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	8	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 2004 and 2024, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #262, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 181 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 20 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.

Al-Amin · #1991, 22y
Alaa · #734, 29y
Alain · #249, 15y
Alaina · #336, 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.

Winter · #263, 21y
Maddox · #264, 22y
Bowie · #258, 21y
Reina · #266, 22y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Minha · #261, 20y
Winter · #263, 21y
Aronas · #264, 19y
Maddox · #264, 22y

Alaia was ranked #262 in England and Wales · Girls in 2020. 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.

Alaia 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 Alaia without appearing here.

Alaia moved ahead of

Hennie Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4598 and #4598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1204 and #5691.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1537 and #5742.
Dianne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #5556 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2025 and #5785.
Finlay Compare
In 2010 they stood at #5707 and #5707 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2025 and #5785.

Moved ahead of Alaia

Emilie Compare
In 2019 they stood at #457 and #502 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #628 and #264.
Charlie Compare
In 2019 they stood at #457 and #551 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #628 and #315.
Lisa Compare
In 2019 they stood at #457 and #551 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #628 and #355.
Angela Compare
In 2021 they stood at #464 and #517 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #634 and #389.

Moved the opposite way to Alaia

Abigail Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 while Abigail went from #19 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 while Aimee went from #47 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 while Aisling went from #866 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 while Alex went from #199 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Alaia

Ada Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 and Ada from #1617 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 and Alma from #1535 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 and Amelia from #18 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alaia went from #4598 to #275 and Aria from #1715 to #35.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #262 in England and Wales in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alaia

Alaia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alaia across 3 official records

Alaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Alaia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Alaia at a glance

Alaia across 3 official records

Alaia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Alaia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Alaia

Alaia and the names beside it

Alaia moved ahead of

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