Aalaiyah
#11,928 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aalaiyah has been given to 111 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #11,928 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Aalaiyah, 2025
1 in 474,000
Aalaiyah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Aalaiyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,928
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aalaiyah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aalaiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aalaiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aalaiyah was born before 2016 — so the typical Aalaiyah is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 111
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Aalaiyah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −840
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,451
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.64×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2022 (14)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 58.5% average annual change
Spellings of Aalaiyah
Aalaiyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 41.5% against Aalaiyah's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Aalaiyah around the world
Where Aalaiyah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2023–2023#5,688in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Aalaiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aalaiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aalaiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.