In 2025, 45 US girls were named Aaliya, making it the 3,389th most common girls’ name of the year, down 270 places from #3,119 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 51 girls named Aaliya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,187, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #2,736 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aaliya in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,571 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 668 babies named Aaliya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 495 US girls were named Aaliya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 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), Alia (14,028 babies since 1880) and Aliya (11,075 babies since 1880).