Meaning not yet researched.
Aliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,188 in 2025. Its best rank was #133 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #133 in 2011; #263 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#263 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #133.
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Aliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,188 girls in 2025. Peak: #133 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 2,301 (2011).
In 2025, 1,188 US girls were named Aliyah, making it the 263rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #237 in 2024. That is 126 fewer than the 1,314 girls named Aliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #133, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,301. For comparison, it was #164 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aliyah in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 5 babies. In all, 49,054 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 20,188 babies named Aliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,513 US girls were named Aliyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,008. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aliyah ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #133 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Alya (2,242 babies since 1880), Aaliyah (110,077 babies since 1880), Aleah (16,592 babies since 1880) and Alia (14,028 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aleiah, Aleiya and Alleah 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: Aleiah (823), Aleiya (485), Alleah (420), Aliha (264), Aliyha (249), Allyiah (166), Aleayah (124), Alyaa (56), Aleyiah (50), Aliaa (45), Aliaha (34), Alieya (30), 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 Aliyah 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 18 | #133 | #83 |
| Delaware | 5 | #171 | — |
| Arizona | 37 | #173 | #135 |
| Florida | 99 | #179 | #98 |
| California | 181 | #179 | #149 |
| Texas | 168 | #200 | #124 |
| Maryland | 25 | #202 | #198 |
| Washington | 35 | #207 | #146 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #232 | #167 |
| Indiana | 30 | #234 | #191 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #236 | #182 |
| Minnesota | 23 | #241 | #175 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #253 | #89 |
| Georgia | 40 | #257 | #173 |
| Ohio | 43 | #258 | #201 |
| Kansas | 12 | #261 | #220 |
| New Jersey | 31 | #263 | #221 |
| Virginia | 30 | #273 | #230 |
| New York | 59 | #283 | #194 |
| Massachusetts | 20 | #284 | #160 |
| Missouri | 21 | #289 | #229 |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | #289 | #165 |
| Illinois | 36 | #295 | #151 |
| Alabama | 16 | #297 | #218 |
| Idaho | 7 | #309 | #125 |
| Oregon | 11 | #321 | #214 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #341 | #420 |
| Utah | 12 | #362 | #197 |
| Michigan | 23 | #374 | #214 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #433 | #213 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #441 | #157 |
| Iowa | 7 | #441 | #272 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #443 | #198 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #449 | #207 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #461 | #136 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #480 | #267 |
| Colorado | 11 | #500 | #170 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #519 | #181 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #562 | #243 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #574 | #141 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,188 | #263 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,314 | #237 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,352 | #220 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,308 | #233 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,441 | #208 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,532 | #188 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,678 | #173 | 5 | #12,228 |
| 2018 | 1,777 | #161 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,915 | #154 | 5 | #12,346 |
| 2016 | 2,008 | #155 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,974 | #164 | 5 | #12,174 |
| 2014 | 1,971 | #167 | — | — |
| 2013 | 2,115 | #148 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,265 | #140 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,301 | #133 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,163 | #143 | 6 | #10,826 |
| 2009 | 1,991 | #158 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,754 | #191 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,611 | #213 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,452 | #235 | 6 | #10,730 |
| 2005 | 1,462 | #233 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,529 | #221 | 11 | #6,541 |
| 2003 | 1,392 | #236 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,607 | #203 | 5 | #10,736 |
| 2001 | 1,411 | #226 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,116 | #287 | — | — |
| 1999 | 867 | #345 | — | — |
| 1998 | 878 | #336 | — | — |
| 1997 | 897 | #322 | — | — |
| 1996 | 675 | #392 | — | — |
| 1995 | 785 | #338 | — | — |
| 1994 | 732 | #357 | — | — |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,976 | — | — |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,853 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,784 | — | — |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,254 | — | — |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,590 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,578 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,186 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,783 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,459 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,360 | — | — |
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).