Aaliyan
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aaliyan has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.
Babies named Aaliyan, 2020
1 in 418,000
Aaliyan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Aaliyan over time
In 2025, Aaliyan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Aaliyan?
Aaliyan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 202,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,591 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aaliyan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,591 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aaliyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aaliyans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aaliyan was born before 2009 — so the typical Aaliyan is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 123
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Aaliyan 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2007 (10)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.9% average annual change
Spellings of Aaliyan
Aaliyan is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 44.3% against Aaliyan's 0.05%.
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.
Aaliyan around the world
Where Aaliyan 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 & Wales2008–2025#2,952in 2025
- Canada2016–2018#2,281in 2018
- South Australia2013–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Aaliyan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Aaliyan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aaliyan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.