Aalaiyah

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births

Peak · girls
2022 · 14 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
111
since 1997

Aalaiyah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Aalaiyah has never cracked the top 7,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202003girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#11,9327
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2023#11,1698
2022#7,63114
2021#12,2067
2020#11,0908
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2016#10,11310
2015#9,48111
2014#14,5586
2013#9,03612
2012#16,8695
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First appearance
1997

The first year at least five girls were named Aalaiyah! It came in at #13,724, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1997–2007, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Aalaiyah is popular in 2003

No state had 5 or more girls named Aalaiyah in 2003, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Aalaiyah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 842 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #11,932)
  • 2,451 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #11,932)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1997
  • Peaked 2022 at #7,631 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 117,152
  • Highest: 1 in 117,152 girls born in 2022 were named Aalaiyah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 45.9% of all girls named Aalaiyah (51) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s5#13,724 (1997)#13,724
2000s11#15,405 (2008)#15,595
2010s51#9,036 (2013)#12,128
2020s44#7,631 (2022)#10,806

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aalaiyah in 2003

girls
#15,784
5 births · 1 in 365,429 girls

Top girls' names in 2003

  1. #1Emily25,693
  2. #2Emma22,719
  3. #3Madison20,201
  4. #4Hannah17,638
  5. #5Olivia16,154
  6. #6Abigail15,932
  7. #7Alexis14,867
  8. #8Ashley14,519
  9. #9Elizabeth14,123
  10. #10Samantha13,870
  11. #15,784Aalaiyah5
More about 2003

girls

1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 365,429 of them was named Aalaiyah, which outranked 14.4% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aalaiyah
  1. #13,844Zyashia6
  2. #13,844Zyia6
  3. #13,844Zyriah6
  4. #15,784Aalaiyah5
  5. #15,784Aadya5
  6. #15,784Aalayna5
  7. #15,784Aalycia5

Tied with 2,655 names at #15,784; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2002
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,689Laci#2,126 → #437
  2. ↑ 1,528Karyme#2,467 → #939
  3. ↑ 1,500Roselyn#2,467 → #967
  4. ↑ 1,326Kaydence#2,310 → #984
  5. ↑ 1,170Sherlyn#2,081 → #911
Fallers
  1. ↓ 481Odalys#951 → #1,432
  2. ↓ 400Kari#975 → #1,375
  3. ↓ 334Litzy#501 → #835
  4. ↓ 289Alysha#960 → #1,249
  5. ↓ 252Roxana#861 → #1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2003 →