In 2025, 6 US girls were named Alyiah, making it the 13,299th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,325 places from #8,974 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 11 girls named Alyiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,756, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #4,591 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Alyiah in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 19 babies. In all, 1,040 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 477 babies named Alyiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 155 US girls were named Alyiah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aliyah (49,054 babies since 1880), Aleah (16,592 babies since 1880), Alia (14,028 babies since 1880) and Aliah (5,831 babies since 1880).