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Alayla

Feminine · “night”

1994high 2017
#2691 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare64 girls in 2025

Alayla joins an A- front to Layla — night, in Arabic — and Layla and Majnun is the great Arabic love story.

How old is the name Alayla?

Alayla first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Alayla is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,700 people named Alayla are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Alayla most popular?

Alayla peaked in 2017, reaching #1779 nationally. Today it ranks #2691, 912 places below that high. See the whole 2017 chart.

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Where it comes from

Our story of Alayla

Our story of Alayla is a story of an initial vowel added to an old word. Layla means night in Arabic and is the beloved of Layla and Majnun, a seventh-century story Nizami turned into a Persian epic and Clapton into a song. American naming through the 2010s attached A- fronts freely — Alayla, Aleyla, Alaya. The back half has fourteen centuries; the front has ten years.

Meaningscholars disagree

night

The -layla element is the Arabic layla, 'night', which is settled. The A- front is a modern American addition. The compound is not documented in Arabic. Half the name is inherited and half is recent.

How the name formed

  1. layla
  2. Alayla

Related forms: Alaila · ليلى

Pronouncing Alayla

uh-LAY-lah

Three syllables, stress in the middle. Arabic Layla is LAY-lah with two.

Nicknames for Alayla

Moderate

LaylaThe back of the name, and a name in its own right with a large record
AlaThe front of the name, used inside families rather than generally
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1994–20251175901176419942025

US babies named Alayla per year from 1994 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#17791990s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1994
Most girls named
2017117 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1779reached in 2017
Change vs 2024
−12.3%64 in 2025, from 73
Alayla sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2017, with 117 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Alayla in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Alaila in English — spelling variant
  • ليلى in Arabic — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.

Alaylas among us

1,700

people named Alayla are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 25,114 born in 2025 was named Alayla

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Alayla

#2691
Alayla on the 2025 chart
#852
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Alayla went to 64 girls in 2025, but Alaylah, Alaila and Alailah are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 108, which makes it the 852nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,839 places above the chart.

  • Alayla64
  • Alaylah19
  • Alaila16
  • Alailah9

About 1 girl in 14,882 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,114 for Alayla itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Sheniqua test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Alayla's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sheniqua climbed just as high around 1991, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sheniqua's path sketches the road Alayla is walking now.

40%chance Alayla will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Alayla, aligned on its peakSheniqua· peak 1991not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-20 yrs+10 yrsSheniqua · #5242Alayla today
Alayla today is about where Sheniqua stood in 1999 — 8 years past a #1779-sized peak. Within 15 years, Sheniqua had drifted out of the mainstream charts.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Alayla sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Alayla is headed

19942030

US babies named Alayla per year, 1994 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Alayla should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.

Steady-6% by 2030projected around #2,936 in 2030

Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Alayla beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Alayla in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Alaylathis name64#2691Maricela64#2691Zulema64#2691Layana64#2691Meher64#2691

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The night meaning is genuine and undisputed for the second half.
  • Layla is available as a short form with a large record.
  • Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
What to consider
  • The compound is not documented in Arabic.
  • Layla and Alayla are close enough to confuse.
  • It is very new in American records.

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Frequently asked

How many Alaylas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Alayla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Alayla?
Alayla is the most-used spelling in US records — 64 of the 108 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Alaylah, Alaila and Alailah.
How popular is the name Alayla in 2025?
Alayla ranks #2691 among US girl names in 2025, with 64 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Alayla?
About 1 in every 25,114 US girls born in 2025 was named Alayla — 64 in all.
Will my child share the name Alayla with classmates?
Alayla will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Alayla

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Maricela#2691 · Zulema#2691 · Layana#2691 · Meher#2691 · Cyra#2691 · Aeris#2691 · Adelyne#2691 · Annmarie#2691

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