Aleyda
Feminine · “of noble kind”
Aleyda is a Spanish form of Aleida, which is itself a Dutch and German shortening of Adelaide — a Germanic name about being noble in a specific and rather concrete way.
How old is the name Aleyda?
Aleyda first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Aleyda is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,700 people named Aleyda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aleyda most popular?
Aleyda peaked in 2014, reaching #1275 nationally. Today it ranks #3296, 2,021 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adalheidis to Aleyda
The story of Aleyda
Adalheidis was a tenth-century empress and saint, and her name spread across Europe in every possible shortening: Alice in France and England, Adelheid in Germany, Aleida in the Low Countries, Alida in Hungary. Spanish-speaking families in Colombia and Venezuela took up Aleyda in the twentieth century with the y that Spanish prefers for that sound, and it reaches American records from there.
Meaningscholars disagree
of noble kind
Adelaide is from Germanic adal, noble, and heid, a kind or sort — so of noble type rather than simply noble. Dutch and German shortened it to Aleida and Aleid; the Spanish Aleyda follows that line, though a separate derivation has occasionally been proposed.
How the name formed
- Adalheidis
- Aleida
- Aleyda
Related forms: Aleida · Adelheid · Alice · Alida
Pronouncing Aleyda
ah-LAY-dah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Aleyda
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1959
- Most girls named
- 2014188 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1275reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −29.9%47 in 2025, from 67
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.
Aleyda in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aleida in Dutch — same name
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Alice in English — related form
- Alida in Hungarian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Illinois.
Aleydas among us
people named Aleyda are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 34,197 born in 2025 was named Aleyda
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aleyda
- #3296
- Aleyda on the 2025 chart
- #844
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aleyda went to 47 girls in 2025, but Aleida is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 116, which makes it the 844th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,452 places above the chart.
- Aleida69
- Aleyda47
About 1 girl in 13,856 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,197 for Aleyda 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Connor test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aleyda's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Connor climbed just as high around 1992, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Connor's path sketches the road Aleyda is walking now.
Aleyda 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 Aleyda is headed
Aleyda should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Aleyda beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aleyda in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented line back to a tenth-century empress, through half a dozen languages.
- Every letter is said, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- It is distinctive in American records while completely ordinary in Colombian ones.
- Aleida and Aleyda are both used and the spelling will be asked for.
- English readers meeting it cold are unsure what to do with the ey.
- It is close to Aleida, Alida and Aleyna, all of which are separate names.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aleydas 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 Aleyda are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aleyda?
- Aleyda is one of 2 recorded spellings. Aleida is the more common one — 69 births in 2025 against 47 for Aleyda.
- How popular is the name Aleyda in 2025?
- Aleyda ranks #3296 among US girl names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aleyda?
- About 1 in every 34,197 US girls born in 2025 was named Aleyda — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aleyda with classmates?
- Aleyda will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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