Aalliyah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aalliyah has been given to 169 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 2001, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Aalliyah, 2022
1 in 677,000
Aalliyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Aalliyah?
Aalliyah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aalliyah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aalliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aalliyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aalliyah was born before 2003 — so the typical Aalliyah is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 59.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 84.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 169
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 59.2% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Aalliyah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2001 (17)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.8% average annual change
Spellings of Aalliyah
Aalliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 47.2% against Aalliyah's 0.07%.
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.
Where Aalliyah is used
Across 1910–2025, Aalliyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 905,058 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aalliyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Aalliyah around the world
Where Aalliyah 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 & Wales2009–2009#5,556in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Aalliyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aalliyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aalliyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.