Meaning not yet researched.
Aaliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,607 in 2025. Its best rank was #36 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #36 in 2012; #101 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aaliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#101 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #36.
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Aaliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,607 girls in 2025. Peak: #36 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 5,523 (2012).
In 2025, 2,607 US girls were named Aaliyah, making it the 101st most common girls’ name of the year, down 6 places from #95 in 2024. That is 105 fewer than the 2,712 girls named Aaliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #36, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,523. For comparison, it was #47 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aaliyah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 18 babies. In all, 110,077 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 46,781 babies named Aaliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 35,043 US girls were named Aaliyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,660. In 2025 that was about 1 in 617 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aaliyah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #37 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 12 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Aliyah (49,054 babies since 1880), Aliya (11,075 babies since 1880), Aliah (5,831 babies since 1880) and Alliyah (3,013 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aaliah, Aalyiah and Aalyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aaliah (1,039), Aalyiah (808), Aalyah (738), Aalia (705), Alliah (630), Aleiyah (589), Aaliyha (439), Aaleah (345), Alleyah (327), Allyah (307), Ahliyah (289), Aliayah (239), and more.
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 Aaliyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 24 | #37 | #14 |
| Delaware | 13 | #46 | #40 |
| Nevada | 37 | #49 | #28 |
| Arizona | 94 | #50 | #34 |
| California | 442 | #58 | #41 |
| Texas | 372 | #66 | #33 |
| District of Columbia | 9 | #73 | #42 |
| Florida | 196 | #80 | #30 |
| Washington | 64 | #95 | #67 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #97 | — |
| Mississippi | 22 | #99 | #27 |
| Georgia | 88 | #100 | #40 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #103 | #34 |
| Massachusetts | 47 | #112 | #88 |
| North Carolina | 88 | #113 | #48 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #114 | #40 |
| Illinois | 79 | #116 | #49 |
| Colorado | 45 | #118 | #74 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #120 | #60 |
| Louisiana | 34 | #121 | #44 |
| Virginia | 58 | #127 | #76 |
| New York | 122 | #130 | #68 |
| New Jersey | 58 | #133 | #81 |
| Alaska | 5 | #134 | #77 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #136 | #78 |
| Ohio | 78 | #139 | #54 |
| Pennsylvania | 74 | #143 | #103 |
| Indiana | 46 | #145 | #57 |
| Tennessee | 50 | #148 | #58 |
| Maine | 7 | #153 | #185 |
| Minnesota | 35 | #154 | #133 |
| Iowa | 21 | #154 | #68 |
| Kansas | 21 | #156 | #59 |
| Nebraska | 14 | #157 | #98 |
| Oregon | 22 | #158 | #52 |
| Utah | 27 | #162 | #153 |
| Maryland | 30 | #168 | #57 |
| Kentucky | 26 | #172 | #66 |
| Alabama | 24 | #184 | #50 |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #185 | #62 |
| Michigan | 46 | #193 | #67 |
| Montana | 5 | #208 | #85 |
| Missouri | 27 | #228 | #77 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #270 | #49 |
| Idaho | 7 | #308 | #64 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #308 | #64 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #326 | #90 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,607 | #101 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,712 | #95 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,858 | #85 | 5 | #12,243 |
| 2022 | 3,286 | #69 | — | — |
| 2021 | 3,619 | #61 | — | — |
| 2020 | 3,584 | #65 | — | — |
| 2019 | 3,675 | #70 | 5 | #12,146 |
| 2018 | 3,845 | #65 | — | — |
| 2017 | 4,197 | #57 | 7 | #9,699 |
| 2016 | 4,660 | #53 | — | — |
| 2015 | 4,884 | #47 | 5 | #12,089 |
| 2014 | 4,902 | #45 | 5 | #12,111 |
| 2013 | 5,246 | #37 | 12 | #6,604 |
| 2012 | 5,523 | #36 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2011 | 5,129 | #46 | — | — |
| 2010 | 4,673 | #56 | 6 | #10,767 |
| 2009 | 4,378 | #63 | — | — |
| 2008 | 4,046 | #76 | — | — |
| 2007 | 3,961 | #83 | — | — |
| 2006 | 3,745 | #90 | — | — |
| 2005 | 3,459 | #93 | 10 | #7,097 |
| 2004 | 3,492 | #94 | 11 | #6,522 |
| 2003 | 3,673 | #90 | 6 | #9,582 |
| 2002 | 4,779 | #64 | 8 | #7,643 |
| 2001 | 3,352 | #96 | 8 | #7,536 |
| 2000 | 1,496 | #211 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,088 | #287 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,399 | #222 | 5 | #9,632 |
| 1997 | 1,739 | #176 | — | — |
| 1996 | 831 | #335 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,256 | #225 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,451 | #202 | 6 | #7,772 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,659 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,867 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,836 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,840 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,312 | — | — |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,457 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,726 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,678 | — | — |
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).