Meaning not yet researched.
Aleia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 279 in 2025. Its best rank was #933 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Aleia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#933 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Aleia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 279 girls in 2025. Peak: #933 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 279 (2025).
In 2025, 279 US girls were named Aleia, making it the 933rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 29 places from #962 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 271 girls named Aleia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #933, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 279. For comparison, it was #2,712 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aleia in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 9 babies. In all, 3,223 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,468 babies named Aleia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,876 US girls were named Aleia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 279. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,761 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aleia ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #138 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Allie (56,372 babies since 1880), Ali (44,888 babies since 1880), Aleah (16,592 babies since 1880) and Alia (14,028 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Aleia 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #138 | — |
| Arizona | 18 | #372 | — |
| California | 59 | #549 | #2,503 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #628 | — |
| Texas | 43 | #700 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #707 | — |
| New Jersey | 10 | #721 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #812 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #822 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #872 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #915 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,020 | #1,649 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,082 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,144 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,165 | #2,229 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 279 | #933 | — | — |
| 2024 | 271 | #962 | — | — |
| 2023 | 222 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 2022 | 227 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2021 | 226 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 2020 | 243 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 2019 | 165 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 2015 | 65 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,007 | — | — |
| 2012 | 60 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,126 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,587 | — | — |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,319 | — | — |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,947 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,820 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,124 | — | — |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,476 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,190 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,150 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,035 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,394 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,461 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,584 | — | — |
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).