Meaning not yet researched.
Aaleyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,477 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,477 in 2015; #5,722 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aaleyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,722 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,477.
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Aaleyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,477 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 155 (2015).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Aaleyah, making it the 5,722nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 240 places from #5,962 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 20 girls named Aaleyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,477, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 155. For comparison, it was #1,477 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aaleyah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 18 babies. In all, 1,441 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 950 babies named Aaleyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 521 US girls were named Aaleyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 104. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aaliyah (110,077 babies since 1880), Aliyah (49,054 babies since 1880), Aleah (16,592 babies since 1880) and Alliyah (3,013 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aaleyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,722 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,962 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,390 | — | — |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,678 | — | — |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 2015 | 155 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,648 | — | — |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,213 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,356 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,528 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,768 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,998 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,392 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,103 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,534 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,345 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,720 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,417 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,574 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,553 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,249 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).