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Alaia
Say it: ah-LY-ah
Meaning
From Basque, related to alai 'cheerful, joyful'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A Basque name that spread in Spain and then the US in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2020s
In the United States
- 6,299 babies given this name since 1986
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 709 girls
- 2,259 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Alaya
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.