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The first name 
Alayiah

Alayiah is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Alayiah meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Alayiah is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Alayiah. In the SmartGenius ranking, Alayiah is #3,407 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alayiah.

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

Alayiah -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Alayiah in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 101 women and girls named Alayiah, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 101 women and girls named Alayiah live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Michigan. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Alayiah. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Alayiah lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Alayiah and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Alayiah relative to its female population is Texas. And even there, only one in 183,697 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Alayiah.

Alayiah 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 Alayiah 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, y, i, a and h

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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alayiah

If your name is Alayiah 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 Alayiah

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

Apple

Lion

Apple

Yoyo

Igloo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Alayiah 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 Alayiah in Braille?

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

Alayiah

Alayiah

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

A
L
A
Y
I
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Alayiah

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
Y
I
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. Alayiah sounds like this: