Ahlijah
#12,055 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ahlijah has been given to 78 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #12,055 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Ahlijah, 2025
1 in 663,000
Ahlijah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Ahlijah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,055
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ahlijah 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ahlijah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ahlijahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ahlijah was born before 2011 — so the typical Ahlijah is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Ahlijah 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
- +78
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.5%
- Peak was 2011 (13)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ahlijah
Ahlijah is not the most common spelling — Elijah is, with 96.1% against Ahlijah's 0.02%.
Ahlijah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ahlijah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ahlijah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.