Alaia

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alaia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed in the 21st century from Basque Alaia, from alai (“joyful”). For earlier use among English-speakers, compare Hebrew עֲלִיָּה ('alīyá, “ascent”), Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya, “high, exalted”).

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.1K◐
  • ESSpain1 in 15K
  • ARArgentina1 in 63K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈13K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
99 ●

7.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.1K ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Alaia: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Alaia
  1. BasqueAlaia●
  2. Basque rootalai“joyful”●

Borrowed in the 21st century from Basque Alaia, from alai (“joyful”). For earlier use among English-speakers, compare Hebrew עֲלִיָּה ('alīyá, “ascent”), Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya, “high, exalted”).

Sources 2

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Alaia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—10,8453.1K rec.—1.6KAlaia23
EC Ecuador#7945,518△4 rec.1 in 3.1K5.5KAlaia8
ES Spain—3,357△641 rec.1 in 15K3.4KAlaia42
US United States—3,187△1.4K rec.1 in 104K3.2KAlaia99
CA Canada—61734 rec.—8Alaia7
PY Paraguay—609575 rec.——Alaia4
MX Mexico—58066 rec.—4Alaia13
DO Dominican Republic#32350450 rec.——Alaia7
FR France—420385 rec.1 in 162K420Alaia72
CL Chile—35512 rec.—79Alaia13
PA Panama—207213 rec.——Alaia5
UY Uruguay—20658 rec.—2Alaia8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish26K65%
  • English7.2K18%
  • Catalan3.4K8%
  • French1.5K4%
  • Portuguese4911%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish25,82065%
English7,17818%
Catalan3,3588%
French1,5314%
Portuguese4911%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alaia is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name47 records spelled Alaia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Spain, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Alaïa

  • a separate given name36 records spelled Alaia2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Alaïa

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01K2K3K19902000201020202.4K · 2024

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Alaia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1986–2025
Yearrecords
19866
19927
19938
19945
19967
199710
19995
200014
200117
20028
200312
200418
200526
200618
200736
200837
200944
201041
201146
201254
201355
201466
2015429
2016487
2017461
2018527
20191,604
20202,282
20212,219
20222,081
20232,305
20242,429
20252,318

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1986–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 47 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Alaia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20245.5K#327
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.4K#1,201
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.2K#5,385
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.3K—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.2K#808
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20241.6K#89
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20241.1K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020125#138,300
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024111—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010106#153,769
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202188—
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)202087—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 235 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alaia?
We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Alaia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Alaia have the most bearers?
Alaia is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled alaia.
Where is Alaia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alaia is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.1 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Alaia compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Alaia is the 120th most common given name of 2,536 given names recorded there.
Is Alaia a male or female name?
Alaia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Alaia mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed in the 21st century from Basque Alaia, from alai (“joyful”). For earlier use among English-speakers, compare Hebrew עֲלִיָּה ('alīyá, “ascent”), Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya, “high, exalted”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Alaia” — the 120th most common given name in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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