Alai
Alai is a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name are as follows:
Meaning & Origin of Alai
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Alai is a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name are as follows:
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The Story of Alai
As a girl name
American parents first put Alai on the record books as a girl name in 2006, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2023, when 10 Alais were born — ranking #9,608 that year. About 61% of every Alai on record arrived during the 2020s, its defining decade. Alai last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 59 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
Alai first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a boy name in 2014, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2014: 6 births, good for #10,716 nationwide. Alai last appeared in the published SSA data in 2014, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 6 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2010s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
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About the name Alai
Alai is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2006 and has accumulated 59 births in the dataset. Alai's peak popularity came in 2023 when it ranked #9,608. Use the chart and map above to compare Alai's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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