Alayja comes from the ModernAmerican / InventedVariant tradition, meaning "Happiness" or "Joyful".
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How popular is Alayja?
2009peak year
Alayja first appears in the U.S. registration record in 1998. Its popularity climbed over the following decades. In 2009, 37 babies received the name (ranked #4111). Today it sits well outside the top 1,000 (around #13156), with roughly 7 babies named Alayja each year. Alayja has been declining in recent years. In total, around 365 babies have been registered with this name since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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