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Alayna

The girl's name Alayna has been in the national records since 1945, with 35,594 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 332nd. About 35,000 Alaynas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Alayna boys named Alayna

By the numbers

Total US births
35,594
Estimated living today
35,000
Median age today
13
Peak year
2013
Best rank
206th
Rank in 2025
332nd
First recorded
1945
Girls / boys
35,589 / 5

How old the living Alaynas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 35,594 babies given the name since 1945, about 35,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 23,000 of them are children and 12 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Celtic languages

Rare variant of Alaina.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Alayna is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Alayna is most concentrated in Nevada (1.9×), Minnesota (1.6×), Indiana (1.5×), Wisconsin (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2013

The most popular girls’ names the year Alayna peaked:

All the names of 2013

Alayna elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Alayna 3,193 155th
France girls Alayna 270 1,162nd
Scotland girls Alayna 101 281st
Ireland girls Alayna 57 410th
Northern Ireland girls Alayna 10 370th
Poland girls Alayna 2 birth registrations 714th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Alayna among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Alayna 5 6

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Alayna against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.