Aliyha

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Aliyha has been given to 249 babies in the U.S. since 1995. 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 2001, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Aliyha, 2021

1 in 565,000

Aliyha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aliyha: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aliyha means

Aliyha is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Aliyha is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 249 girls were recorded with the name Aliyha between 1995 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2001; its best national rank was #6,624 in 2001.

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 Aliyha?

Aliyha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 565,000; 6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 273,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Aliyha 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aliyha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliyhas were born

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

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 94.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 249; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Aliyha 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2001 (16)
Years since peak: 24; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,624; 2001

Spellings of Aliyha

Aliyha is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 28.7% against Aliyha's 0.03%.

Alicia28.7%230,790
Alisha7.1%56,996
Aliyah6.1%49,011
Alina5.6%45,387
Alissa4.8%38,591
Alayna4.4%35,589
Alivia4.3%34,786
Alisa4.3%34,705

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.

Aliyha around the world

Where Aliyha 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
1999–2008
#4,524
in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Aliyha 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: —
Best rank ever: #6,624; 2001
Peak year: 2001; 16 that year
First recorded: 1995
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 249
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Aliyha

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

Alilah Aliany Alisse Aliani Alizeh Alivya Alicja Alizon Alitza Alira Aliha Alizee Alinea Alianny Alinna Alinah Alisyn Alilet Alianys Aliona Alayha Alicha Alila Aliena

Sibling names for Aliyha

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

For a sister

Magaly Nyah Sheridan Lesli Nya Shyann Danae Joana

For a brother

Destin Cristobal Dallin Donavon Coby Kevon Zakary Keyon

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