Name meaning & stats
Alaia
Alaia means “high, exalted” (Basque origin). 17,699 US babies since 1940, peak 2024.
What it means
“high, exalted”
BasqueWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2024
17,699 US babies were named Alaia between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Alaia (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 17 Aaliyahs spell it Alaia
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2024)