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Alliyah

#6,339 in 2025Girls' name

High, tall, through Aliyah

Alliyah has been given to 3,013 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #6,339 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 173 recorded.

Babies named Alliyah, 2025

1 in 184,000

Alliyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alliyah: meaning, origin, and history

High, tall, through Aliyah

Hebrew

What Alliyah means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Alliyah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aliyah, عَالِيَة and عَالٍ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Alliyah is pronounced /ɑˈlijə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,013 girls were recorded with the name Alliyah between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 173 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,166 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,649 in 2020 to #6,339 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,738 in 2015 to #6,339 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alliyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,339
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Alliyah 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alliyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alliyah was born before 2004 — so the typical Alliyah is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,013
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (1,373).

Is Alliyah 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
+927
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,690
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,601
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.4%
Peak was 2002 (173)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,166
1995

Spellings of Alliyah

Alliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 31.0% against Alliyah's 0.85%.

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 Alliyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Alliyah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 78,759 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 100,000

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

Alliyah around the world

Where Alliyah 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
  • Scotland
    2006–2006
    #606
    in 2006
  • Ireland
    2006–2006
    #635
    in 2006
  • France
    2002–2025
    #2,693
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2019
    #2,373
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2003–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Alliyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,339
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,690
Best rank ever
#1,166
1995
Peak year
2002
173 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,013
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Alliyah

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

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Names with a curve like Alliyah

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

MakaelaBaylieMykaylaTehyaSimranCaileyMattisonAbrianaTeaShaelynMacaylaCaylin

Sibling names for Alliyah

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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