Aalayah first appears in the U.S. registration record in 1994. Its popularity climbed over the following decades. In 2019, 79 babies received the name (ranked #2285). Today it sits well outside the top 1,000 (around #2743), with roughly 63 babies named Aalayah each year. Aalayah's usage has held roughly steady recently. In total, around 1,222 babies have been registered with this name since 1880.