Meaning not yet researched.
Aliah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 193 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,007 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,007 in 2015; #1,192 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aliah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,192 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,007.
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Aliah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 193 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,007 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 266 (2015).
In 2025, 193 US girls were named Aliah, making it the 1,192nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 51 places from #1,243 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 187 girls named Aliah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,007, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 266. For comparison, it was #1,007 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aliah in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 5,831 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,219 babies named Aliah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,100 US girls were named Aliah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 232. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,328 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aliah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #302 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aaliyah (110,077 babies since 1880), Aliyah (49,054 babies since 1880), Ali (44,888 babies since 1880) and Aleah (16,592 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 Aliah 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #302 | — |
| New Jersey | 13 | #574 | #790 |
| Utah | 6 | #609 | — |
| Texas | 40 | #744 | #741 |
| California | 38 | #788 | #555 |
| Florida | 19 | #826 | #836 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #987 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,403 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 193 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 2024 | 187 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 2023 | 198 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 2022 | 220 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 2021 | 225 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2020 | 187 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2019 | 232 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 2018 | 220 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2017 | 227 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 2016 | 211 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2015 | 266 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 2014 | 179 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 2013 | 203 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2012 | 221 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 2011 | 225 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2010 | 235 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2009 | 207 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 2008 | 189 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 2006 | 179 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 2005 | 164 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 2004 | 163 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 2003 | 130 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 2002 | 140 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 2001 | 126 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1998 | 82 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1997 | 94 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1994 | 67 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,506 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,656 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,061 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,606 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,321 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,040 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,827 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,231 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,925 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,261 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,324 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,575 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,575 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,102 | — | — |
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).