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Aliya

#823 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Aliya has been given to 11,075 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #823 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 483 recorded.

Babies named Aliya, 2025

1 in 10,000

Aliya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aliya: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aliya means

Aliya has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Aliya

A separate documented entry treats Aliya as a feminine form of Ali. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Aliya records a meaning of ascent.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,075 girls were recorded with the name Aliya between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 483 in 2012; its best national rank was #598 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #863 in 2020 to #823 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #928 in 2015 to #823 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.

How common is Aliya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,000
330 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,870
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#823
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,964 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aliya 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,964 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aliya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aliya was born before 2009 — so the typical Aliya is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,075
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (3,764).

Is Aliya 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
+33
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+40
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+105
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.3%
Peak was 2012 (483)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#598
2012

Spellings of Aliya

Aliya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 22.0% against Aliya'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 Aliya is used

Across 2016–2025, Aliya was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,818 girls, against 1 in 4,587 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 33,333).

355 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,818
  2. 2New York1 in 2,381
  3. 3Illinois1 in 3,125
  4. 4Maryland1 in 3,226
  5. 5Virginia1 in 3,333
  6. 6Washington1 in 3,333
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 3,571
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 3,846

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, Aliya is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 65% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Aliya around the world

Where Aliya 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
    #502
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2014
    #439
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2003–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    1988–2025
    #158
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #361
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aliya

People whose public names include Aliya, 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.

Aliya in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aliya. Linked forms have their own page here.

Aalia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aliya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#823
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 40
Best rank ever
#598
2012
Peak year
2012
483 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,075
Count in 2025
330

Names similar to Aliya

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

AlizaAlineAliahAlizeAlidaAlianaAliaAliseAlisaAlinaAlitaAmiyaKaiyaAliAriyaAniyaAlisiaPriyaAlixAliviaAlissonAlissaJaniyaMaiya

Names with a curve like Aliya

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

ArelyGianaAmaniLaneyAiyanaKeylaJayceeSarahiIsabelaSariahPalomaNathaly

Sibling names for Aliya

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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