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How popular is the name Alaia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Alaias are alive today.
Alaia (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 279th in 2025 with 163 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2020, when 181 babies were given the name, the 262nd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 306 in 2023 before climbing back to the 279th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Alaia you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Alaias born in England and Wales are between 2 and 7, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Alaia - on average, only one in every 243 such rooms contains a Alaia.
How many babies are named Alaia each year?
Where does Alaia rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Alaia most popular?
Alaia peaked in 2020, when 181 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Alaia?
At least 1,300 people named Alaia born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Alaia?
Most living Alaias are between 2 and 7; the most common age is about 5.
Is Alaia becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.