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Aleah

#965 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly high, tall, through عَالِيَة

Aleah has been given to 16,592 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #965 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 814 recorded.

Babies named Aleah, 2025

1 in 12,500

Aleah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aleah: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly high, tall, through عَالِيَة

Arabic

What Aleah means

Aleah belongs to the name family reached through Aleah → عَالِيَة → عَالٍ. Its meaning is “high, tall”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Probably a fanciful spelling of Alia, Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aleah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aleah is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Aleah comes through Arabic عَالِيَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include عَالِيَة and عَالٍ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16,592 girls were recorded with the name Aleah between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 814 in 2011; its best national rank was #390 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #582 in 2020 to #965 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #444 in 2015 to #965 in 2025.

How common is Aleah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,500
265 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,060
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#965
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,672 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aleah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,672 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aleahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleah was born before 2011 — so the typical Aleah is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16,592
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (6,959).

Is Aleah 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
−209
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−383
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−521
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.6%
Peak was 2011 (814)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#390
2011

Spellings of Aleah

Aleah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 25.9% against Aleah's 1.7%.

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 Aleah is used

Across 2016–2025, Aleah was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,326 girls, against 1 in 2,960 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in 11,111).

943 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,326
  2. 2California1 in 2,439
  3. 3Indiana1 in 2,439
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 2,439
  5. 5Florida1 in 2,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 2,564
  7. 7Missouri1 in 2,632
  8. 8Utah1 in 2,632

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.

Geographically, Aleah is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 4% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Aleah around the world

Where Aleah 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2021
    #792
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2016
    #276
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2012–2014
    #752
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aleah

People whose public names include Aleah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aleah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#965
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 383
Best rank ever
#390
2011
Peak year
2011
814 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16,592
Count in 2025
265

Names similar to Aleah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Aleah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aleah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aleah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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