How popular is “Alayah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Alayah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Alayah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Alayah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Alayah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1992	10	0.000002603	10	100%
1994	25	0.000006725	25	100%
1995	37	0.000010103	37	100%
1996	28	0.000007677	28	100%
1997	31	0.00000855	31	100%
1998	36	0.000009787	36	100%
1999	41	0.000011099	41	100%
2000	57	0.00001508	57	100%
2001	66	0.000017631	66	100%
2002	92	0.00002461	92	100%
2003	89	0.000023407	89	100%
2004	105	0.00002748	105	100%
2005	138	0.000035892	138	100%
2006	154	0.000038926	154	100%
2007	202	0.000050529	202	100%
2008	232	0.000059023	232	100%
2009	262	0.000068583	262	100%
2010	317	0.000085774	317	100%
2011	373	0.000101974	373	100%
2012	424	0.00011593	424	100%
2013	463	0.000127	463	100%
2014	553	0.000149202	553	100%
2015	537	0.000145099	537	100%
2016	580	0.000158094	580	100%
2017	578	0.000161624	578	100%
2018	592	0.000168378	592	100%
2019	899	0.000259008	899	100%
2020	1134	0.000339462	1134	100%
2021	1002	0.000295754	1002	100%
2022	866	0.000255976	866	100%
2023	793	0.000239491	793	100%
2024	748	0.000224726	748	100%

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