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The first name 
Alayja

Alayja is a first name for girls.

Alayja – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Alayja in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Alayja in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Alayja by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Alayja ranks at #8,923. That means there are 8,922 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Alayja.

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

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

The first name Alayja is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 28 Americans in total bear this name. And these 28 women are located in only three states: Florida, Georgia and Louisiana (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Alayja and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Alayja in relation to it’s female population is Louisiana. And yet even there, only one in 181,264 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Alayja.

Alayja has 6 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 six letters, the name Alayja is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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, j and a

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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Alayja

If your name is Alayja 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 Alayja

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

Apple

Lion

Apple

Yoyo

Joker

Apple

This is how the name Alayja 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 Alayja in Braille?

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

Alayja

Alayja

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

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Alayja 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
J
A

Have you ever waved the name Alayja

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
J
A

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. Alayja sounds like this: