Meaning not yet researched.
Aleah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 265 in 2025. Its best rank was #390 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #390 in 2011; #965 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aleah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#965 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #390.
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Aleah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 265 girls in 2025. Peak: #390 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 814 (2011).
In 2025, 265 US girls were named Aleah, making it the 965th most common girls’ name of the year, down 209 places from #756 in 2024. That is 107 fewer than the 372 girls named Aleah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #390, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 814. For comparison, it was #444 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleah in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 16,592 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,959 babies named Aleah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,874 US girls were named Aleah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 707. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,065 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aleah ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #479 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aliyah (49,054 babies since 1880), Alia (14,028 babies since 1880), Aliah (5,831 babies since 1880) and Alea (4,085 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aleaha, Aleigh and Aleea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Aleaha (857), Aleigh (668), Aleea (608), Aleeha (172), Aleaya (129), Ahleah (114), Ailea (88), Ayleah (74), Aileah (51), Aleha (40), Ahlea (32), Alyea (29), 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 Aleah 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 9 | #479 | #779 |
| Indiana | 9 | #653 | #293 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #683 | #396 |
| Florida | 24 | #692 | #460 |
| California | 39 | #777 | #424 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #815 | #359 |
| Virginia | 8 | #848 | #620 |
| Arizona | 6 | #913 | #535 |
| Colorado | 5 | #914 | #613 |
| Missouri | 5 | #933 | #467 |
| Texas | 29 | #983 | #351 |
| Georgia | 9 | #987 | #526 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,045 | #716 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,059 | #701 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,119 | #604 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,135 | #463 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,141 | #384 |
| New York | 10 | #1,315 | #614 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,448 | #451 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 265 | #965 | — | — |
| 2024 | 372 | #756 | — | — |
| 2023 | 379 | #742 | — | — |
| 2022 | 436 | #669 | — | — |
| 2021 | 461 | #645 | — | — |
| 2020 | 501 | #582 | — | — |
| 2019 | 571 | #538 | — | — |
| 2018 | 565 | #547 | — | — |
| 2017 | 617 | #506 | — | — |
| 2016 | 707 | #455 | — | — |
| 2015 | 713 | #444 | — | — |
| 2014 | 758 | #423 | — | — |
| 2013 | 778 | #395 | — | — |
| 2012 | 753 | #418 | — | — |
| 2011 | 814 | #390 | — | — |
| 2010 | 683 | #450 | — | — |
| 2009 | 583 | #520 | — | — |
| 2008 | 495 | #620 | — | — |
| 2007 | 463 | #640 | — | — |
| 2006 | 431 | #667 | — | — |
| 2005 | 366 | #737 | — | — |
| 2004 | 388 | #696 | — | — |
| 2003 | 319 | #777 | — | — |
| 2002 | 335 | #727 | — | — |
| 2001 | 391 | #646 | — | — |
| 2000 | 419 | #603 | — | — |
| 1999 | 351 | #654 | — | — |
| 1998 | 339 | #678 | — | — |
| 1997 | 308 | #700 | — | — |
| 1996 | 299 | #708 | — | — |
| 1995 | 256 | #778 | — | — |
| 1994 | 199 | #939 | — | — |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1992 | 101 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1991 | 105 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1989 | 97 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1988 | 91 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1987 | 67 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,715 | — | — |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1981 | 75 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,335 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,247 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,912 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,229 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,571 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,547 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,857 | — | — |
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).