Meaning not yet researched.
Aliya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 330 in 2025. Its best rank was #598 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #598 in 2012; #823 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aliya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#823 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #598.
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Aliya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 330 girls in 2025. Peak: #598 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 483 (2012).
In 2025, 330 US girls were named Aliya, making it the 823rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 33 places from #856 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 316 girls named Aliya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #598, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 483. For comparison, it was #928 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aliya in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 16 babies. In all, 11,075 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,764 babies named Aliya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,178 US girls were named Aliya; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 362. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,871 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aliya ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #330 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 Alia (14,028 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Alleya and Ahilya are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Alleya (62), Ahilya (14).
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 Aliya 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 17 | #330 | #511 |
| New York | 43 | #403 | #889 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #414 | #628 |
| Illinois | 24 | #439 | #727 |
| Virginia | 14 | #542 | — |
| Arizona | 12 | #547 | #659 |
| Ohio | 14 | #670 | #899 |
| California | 42 | #735 | #924 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #779 | #717 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #781 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #815 | #555 |
| Maryland | 5 | #850 | #898 |
| Georgia | 10 | #919 | #894 |
| Florida | 16 | #959 | #801 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,062 | #900 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,068 | #778 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,270 | #1,093 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 330 | #823 | — | — |
| 2024 | 316 | #856 | — | — |
| 2023 | 310 | #862 | — | — |
| 2022 | 332 | #843 | — | — |
| 2021 | 362 | #783 | — | — |
| 2020 | 312 | #863 | — | — |
| 2019 | 304 | #886 | — | — |
| 2018 | 293 | #915 | — | — |
| 2017 | 287 | #923 | — | — |
| 2016 | 332 | #852 | — | — |
| 2015 | 293 | #928 | — | — |
| 2014 | 318 | #866 | — | — |
| 2013 | 358 | #760 | — | — |
| 2012 | 483 | #598 | — | — |
| 2011 | 432 | #657 | — | — |
| 2010 | 450 | #652 | — | — |
| 2009 | 452 | #655 | — | — |
| 2008 | 460 | #668 | — | — |
| 2007 | 395 | #738 | — | — |
| 2006 | 404 | #705 | — | — |
| 2005 | 396 | #698 | — | — |
| 2004 | 342 | #761 | — | — |
| 2003 | 323 | #769 | — | — |
| 2002 | 327 | #743 | — | — |
| 2001 | 343 | #715 | — | — |
| 2000 | 322 | #718 | — | — |
| 1999 | 215 | #960 | — | — |
| 1998 | 188 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1997 | 162 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1996 | 149 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1995 | 121 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,526 | — | — |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,724 | — | — |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,741 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,794 | — | — |
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).