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Aliyyah

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Aliya

Aliyyah has been given to 234 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 1997, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Aliyyah, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aliyyah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Aliya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aliyyah means

Aliyyah is a alternate transcription of Aliya.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Aliyyah is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʕa.ˈliː.ja/ for Aliyyah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Aliyyah is a alternate transcription of Aliya. Aliya has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aliya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 234 girls were recorded with the name Aliyyah between 1987 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,423 in 1997.

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 Aliyyah?

Aliyyah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aliyyah 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aliyyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aliyyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aliyyah was born before 1999 — so the typical Aliyyah is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
234
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Aliyyah 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (18)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,423
1997

Spellings of Aliyyah

Aliyyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 32.8% against Aliyyah's 0.07%.

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 Aliyyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Aliyyah was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 246,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —

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. Aliyyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aliyyah around the world

Where Aliyyah 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2011–2022
    #6,962
    in 2022

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.

Aliyyah 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
#5,423
1997
Peak year
1997
18 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
234
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aliyyah

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

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Sibling names for Aliyyah

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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