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Aliah

#1,192 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Aaliyah

Aliah has been given to 5,831 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,192 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 266 recorded.

Babies named Aliah, 2025

1 in 17,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aliah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Aaliyah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aliah means

Aliah is a variant of Aaliyah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aliah → Aaliyah → عَالِيَة → عَالٍ. The family’s meaning is “high, tall”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements عَالٍ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aaliyah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,831 girls were recorded with the name Aliah between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 266 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,007 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,224 in 2020 to #1,192 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,007 in 2015 to #1,192 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Aliah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,200
193 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,330
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,192
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,907 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aliah 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,907 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aliah was born before 2012 — so the typical Aliah is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,831
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (2,219).

Is Aliah 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
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+32
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−185
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.6%
Peak was 2015 (266)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,007
2015

Spellings of Aliah

Aliah is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 25.3% against Aliah's 0.25%.

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 Aliah is used

Across 2016–2025, Aliah was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 6,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 4,000
  2. 2California1 in 4,167
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 4,348
  4. 4Texas1 in 4,348
  5. 5Florida1 in 5,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 5,263
  7. 7New York1 in 5,263
  8. 8Illinois1 in 6,667

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.

Aliah around the world

Where Aliah 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
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #3,148
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Aliah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,192
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 32
Best rank ever
#1,007
2015
Peak year
2015
266 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,831
Count in 2025
193

Names similar to Aliah

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

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Names with a curve like Aliah

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

GiavannaElaynaNathaliaLeenaNailahKaleaHonestyViviannaEmaniZainabAveriJael

Sibling names for Aliah

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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