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The first name 
Alaiyah

Alaiyah is a first name for girls.

Alaiyah is a well-known but special name!

Alaiyah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,625 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,624 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alaiyah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Alaiyah

Alaiyah -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Alaiyah are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Alaiyah in 21 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Alaiyah live in Florida – here, one in 46,764 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 191,281 will turn around if you call her first name Alaiyah.

Alaiyah has 7 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With seven letters, the name Alaiyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, l, a, i, y, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Alaiyah – A, l, a, i, y, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Aayliah or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alaiyah

If your name is Alaiyah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Alaiyah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Alaiyah, you can simply say:

Apple

Lion

Apple

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Alaiyah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Alaiyah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Alaiyah

Alaiyah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Alaiyah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Alaiyah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
L
A
I
Y
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Alaiyah

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
L
A
I
Y
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Alaiyah sounds like this: