Comments for the name Alaia

Alaia means: Happy, Joyful (the one that's happy) in Basque.
The meaning of joy in Basque would be: Alaitasuna, not Alaia.
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This is the name of actor Stephan Baldwin's daughter.

Pronounced uh-li-yah (more or less).

You could pronounce this any way you want and I'd still love it, it's so pretty and because of its many pronunciations it would still sound pretty if people got it wrong, so I don't think anyone could complain if this was their name and it was forever being said wrongly.

Pronounced ah-LIE-uh.

Alaia is such a beautiful name! I love it. Alaia sounds literally joyful and I think it ought to be used more often. It's a gorgeous and vibrant name. I like names of that sound - like Amaia, Maia, Gaia.

A famous bearer of this name as a surname is Azzedine Alaïa, a Tunisian fashion designer. His fashion brand is also called Alaïa.