In 2025, 18 US girls were named Alliyah, making it the 6,340th most common girls’ name of the year, up 930 places from #7,270 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 15 girls named Alliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,169, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 173, in 2002. For comparison, it was #2,738 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alliyah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 94 babies. In all, 3,013 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,373 babies named Alliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 271 US girls were named Alliyah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aaliyah (110,077 babies since 1880), Aliyah (49,054 babies since 1880), Aliya (11,075 babies since 1880) and Aliah (5,831 babies since 1880).