# Alayah name report

Canonical URL: https://babynameranks.com/name/f/alayah
Data source: U.S. Social Security Administration public baby-name records
Latest year: 2025

## Summary
Alayah ranked #412 officially for girls in 2025. After combined spelling groups, it ranked #352.

## Official spelling
- Rank: #412
- Birth count: 756
- Rate per 10,000: 4.70

## Combined spelling group
- Group display: Alayah
- Rank: #352
- Birth count: 898
- Rate per 10,000: 5.59
- Official count multiplier: 1.19x

## Practical popularity
- Expected per class of 25: 0.01
- Expected per grade of 100: 0.03
- Expected per school of 300: 0.08
- Duplicate chance in grade of 100: 2.6%

## Trend
- Label: recently peaked
- Peak rate year: 2020
- Best rank year: 2020
- Latest rate as percent of peak: 68.1%

## Spelling components
- Alayah: 756 births
- Alaiyah: 131 births
- Allayah: 11 births

## Methodology notes
- Official SSA ranks treat each spelling separately.
- Combined ranks group spelling variants and recompute ranks by sex.
- State combined counts may be lower bounds when rare state spellings are suppressed.
- Full methodology: https://babynameranks.com/methodology