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Alayna vs Alaysia

American parents have registered 35,594 Alaynas since 1880, against 5,478 Alaysias. Alayna is still ahead, with 927 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Alayna Alaysia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Alayna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1945 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Alayna had 720 and Alaysia had 196.

Side by side

  Alayna Alaysia
Total US births 35,5945,478
Most in one year 1,563274
Babies in 2025 92781
Estimated living today 35,0005,400
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20132014
Best rank 206th girls972nd girls
Rank in 2025 332nd2,256th
First recorded 19451990
Girls / boys 35,589 / 55,478 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Alayna Alaysia
England and Wales 3,19344

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Alayna and Alaysia.