Alayna

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Alayna: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #153 in 2022, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#153highest 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	#2411
1998	#2407
1999	#1675
2000	#1995
2001	#1520
2002	#1530
2003	#1722
2004	#1535
2005	#1243
2006	#869
2007	#919
2008	#779
2009	#726
2010	#719
2011	#509
2012	#448
2013	#466
2014	#463
2015	#388
2016	#315
2017	#288
2018	#204
2019	#155
2020	#209
2021	#245
2022	#153
2023	#163
2024	#234

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #234 among girls in England and Wales, #384 among girls in Scotland, #631 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: #153 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022 (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

Alayna appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,979 births with the name.

Alayna 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.

Alayna'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)	#153 (2022)	#234 (2024)	29 of 29	2,979 (1996–2024)	325 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#894 (2013)	#410 (2020)	#718 (2025)	11 of 13	57 (2013–2025)	9 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#370 (2013)	#370 (2013)	#391 (2023)	3 of 11	10 (2013–2023)	4 (2013)

Alayna 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 Alayna in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	237	10 of 10	24
2010s	1,444	10 of 10	144
2020sbusiest	1,273	5 of 10	255

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 255 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 115, from 203 to 318.

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

Alayna 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: #153 in England and Wales in 2022.

Alayna'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	#234	205	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#163	312	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#153	318	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#245	203	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#209	235	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#155	325	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#204	255	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#288	170	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#315	157	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#388	118	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#463	94	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#466	90	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#448	101	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#509	83	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#719	51	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#726	50	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#779	44	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#919	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#869	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1243	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1675	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#631	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	6	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#410	9	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#581	6	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	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 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #153, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 325 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, 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.

Alaya · #225, 26y
Alayah · #298, 23y
Alaynah · #1782, 15y
Alaysia · #3285, 10y

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.

Lennon · #153, 31y
Xander · #153, 27y
Beatrix · #152, 30y
Honey · #152, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Xander · #153, 27y
Beatrix · #152, 30y
Honey · #152, 30y
Innes · #152, 28y

Alayna was ranked #153 in England and Wales · Girls in 2022. 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.

Alayna 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 Alayna without appearing here.

Alayna moved ahead of

Teddy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3795 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1530 and #4137.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1995 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1520 and #3998.
Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1675 and #3900.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2407 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1675 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Alayna

Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #509 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #448 and #284.
Liv Compare
In 2024 they stood at #631 and #898 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #718 and #608.

Moved the opposite way to Alayna

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Alayna

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Alayna went from #3795 to #234 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: #153 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Alayna

Alayna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Alayna across 3 official records

Alayna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Alayna appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Alayna at a glance

Alayna across 3 official records

Alayna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Alayna appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Alayna

Alayna and the names beside it

Alayna moved ahead of

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