Aleyah
#1,710 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aleyah has been given to 2,805 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,710 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 135 recorded.
Babies named Aleyah, 2025
1 in 27,900
Aleyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Aleyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 27,900
- 119 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 13,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,710
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 19,311 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aleyah 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 19,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aleyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aleyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aleyah was born before 2013 — so the typical Aleyah is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,805
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (1,071).
Is Aleyah 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
- +186
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +82
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +185
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 88.1%
- Peak was 2012 (135)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.3% average annual change
Spellings of Aleyah
Aleyah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 29.1% against Aleyah's 0.32%.
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 Aleyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Aleyah was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 16,852 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 9,091
- 2California1 in 10,000
- 3Florida1 in 12,500
- 4Georgia1 in 12,500
- 5Arizona1 in 25,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 25,000
- 7Illinois1 in 33,333
- 8Michigan1 in 33,333
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.
Aleyah around the world
Where Aleyah 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 & Wales1998–2025#2,605in 2025
- France2016–2025#2,347in 2025
- Canada2002–2022#2,577in 2022
- South Australia2002–2013#536in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Aleyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aleyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Aleyah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aleyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Aleyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.