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Aliye

Girls' name

High, tall, through عَالِيَة

Aliye has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Aliye, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aliye: meaning, origin, and history

High, tall, through عَالِيَة

Arabic

What Aliye means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Aliye is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Aliye comes through Ottoman Turkish عالیه and Arabic عَالِيَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aliyah, عَالِيَة and عَالٍ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Aliye is pronounced /a.liˈje/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Aliye between 2001 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #15,239 in 2006.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aliye?

Aliye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aliye 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 2015 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aliye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliyes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aliye was born before 2006 — so the typical Aliye is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Aliye 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#15,239
2006

Spellings of Aliye

Aliye is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 48.1% against Aliye's <0.01%.

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.

Aliye around the world

Where Aliye 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
    2002–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1975–2025
    #6,928
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Aliye by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#15,239
2006
Peak year
2006
6 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aliye

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

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Sibling names for Aliye

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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