Meaning not yet researched.
Alijah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 651 in 2025. Its best rank was #408 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #408 in 2021; #469 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Alijah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#469 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #408.
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Alijah: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 651 boys in 2025. Peak: #408 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 762 (2021).
In 2025, 651 US boys were named Alijah, making it the 469th most common boys’ name of the year, down 40 places from #429 in 2024. That is 88 fewer than the 739 boys named Alijah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #408, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 762. For comparison, it was #482 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alijah in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 15,681 US babies have been given the name, 9.2% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,315 babies named Alijah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,579 US boys were named Alijah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 762. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,624 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Alijah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #195 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Alayjah, Alaijah and Alajah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alayjah (781), Alaijah (740), Alajah (693), Aalijah (453), Alyjah (391), Alaija (229), Alaja (197), Alija (179), Aleja (175), Alejah (119), Ahlijah (78), Aleijah (64), 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 Alijah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 10 | #195 | #234 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #216 | #422 |
| Nevada | 10 | #299 | #393 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #315 | #285 |
| Florida | 58 | #331 | #379 |
| Ohio | 33 | #340 | #342 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #381 | #377 |
| Texas | 90 | #393 | #509 |
| Indiana | 18 | #395 | #356 |
| Georgia | 28 | #407 | #413 |
| California | 80 | #413 | #496 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #446 | #547 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #452 | #494 |
| Missouri | 13 | #458 | #441 |
| Arizona | 15 | #464 | #458 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #470 | #483 |
| Oregon | 7 | #476 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #509 | #364 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #520 | #478 |
| Maryland | 9 | #521 | #285 |
| Alabama | 9 | #526 | #409 |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #526 | #555 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #543 | #546 |
| Illinois | 16 | #569 | #452 |
| Iowa | 5 | #572 | — |
| New York | 26 | #584 | #648 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #623 | #479 |
| Colorado | 8 | #626 | #638 |
| Michigan | 12 | #641 | #452 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #643 | #787 |
| Virginia | 10 | #672 | #446 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #787 | #604 |
| Washington | 7 | #804 | #637 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,505 | 651 | #469 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,625 | 739 | #429 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,421 | 702 | #443 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,208 | 653 | #470 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,510 | 762 | #408 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,284 | 669 | #447 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,927 | 606 | #483 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,964 | 590 | #489 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,781 | 619 | #476 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,968 | 588 | #509 |
| 2015 | 86 | #2,195 | 621 | #482 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,774 | 580 | #484 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,498 | 526 | #509 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,974 | 600 | #454 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,555 | 582 | #458 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,613 | 553 | #470 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,739 | 580 | #471 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,423 | 588 | #470 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,921 | 468 | #550 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,555 | 418 | #586 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,128 | 379 | #596 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,852 | 333 | #633 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,440 | 300 | #658 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,709 | 266 | #684 |
| 2001 | 85 | #1,996 | 172 | #909 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,674 | 142 | #1,027 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,642 | 133 | #1,039 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,462 | 104 | #1,189 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,106 | 91 | #1,263 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,095 | 79 | #1,360 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,880 | 44 | #1,915 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,245 | 33 | #2,348 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,424 | 21 | #3,143 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,790 | 12 | #4,579 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,552 | 8 | #5,958 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #5,842 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #6,969 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #6,985 |
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).