Girl name#1,054 of girl names
Alaia
Pronounced AE1 L AH0 IY1 AH0 (ARPABET)
- 4 syllables
- Peaked 2024
- 39 years in use
How popular is Alaia?
Alaia is a girls' name, and first appears in 1986. It has been given to 16,163 children — the 1,054th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: more than ten times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2024, when 2,495 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 4 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- AE1 L AH0 IY1 AH0 · EY1 L AH0 IY1 AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 1010 · 1010
- Syllables:
- 4
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Alaia
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Alaia
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Alaia?
- Alaia ranks 1,054th among girls' names in US records, with 16,163 births since 1986. Over the past decade it accounts for 15,602.
- Is Alaia a unisex name?
- No. Alaia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Alaia most popular?
- 2024, when 2,495 children were given the name. It has been in use for 39 years and is still recorded as of 2024.