Aaleyah
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 155 births
- Debut · girls
- 18 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,441since 1994
Aaleyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aaleyah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 |
| 2023 | #5,390 | 23 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 |
| 2020 | #3,061 | 52 |
| 2019 | #3,002 | 54 |
| 2018 | #2,361 | 77 |
| 2017 | #2,035 | 96 |
| 2016 | #1,929 | 104 |
| 2015 | #1,477 | 155 |
| 2014 | #1,892 | 106 |
| 2013 | #1,761 | 116 |
| 2012 | #2,078 | 92 |
| 2011 | #2,434 | 75 |
| 2010 | #2,476 | 75 |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 |
| 2007 | #4,213 | 36 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aaleyah! It came in at #5,249, and was given to 18 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
Where Aaleyah is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#470 · 1 in 1,860
- Georgia#1,083 · 1 in 6,006
- Michigan#1,278 · 1 in 8,414
- North Carolina#1,376 · 1 in 9,062
- Texas#1,404 · 1 in 9,841
Best ever in a state: #470 in Nevada, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nevada | #470 | 6 | 1 in 1,860 |
| Georgia | #1,083 | 8 | 1 in 6,006 |
| Michigan | #1,278 | 5 | 1 in 8,414 |
| North Carolina | #1,376 | 5 | 1 in 9,062 |
| Texas | #1,404 | 17 | 1 in 9,841 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,415 | 5 | 1 in 10,371 |
| New York | #1,732 | 7 | 1 in 12,834 |
| Florida | #2,072 | 5 | 1 in 17,342 |
| California | #2,306 | 9 | 1 in 22,635 |
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See more about Aaleyah
- 240 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #5,722)
- 2,661 spots since 2020 (#3,061 → #5,722)
- 4,245 spots since 2015 (#1,477 → #5,722)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2015 at #1,477 (155 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,517 girls born in 2015 were named Aaleyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 65.9% of all girls named Aaleyah (950) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 77 | #5,249 (1994) | #7,476 |
| 2000s | 224 | #3,252 (2009) | #6,479 |
| 2010s | 950 | #1,477 (2015) | #2,145 |
| 2020s | 190 | #3,061 (2020) | #4,685 |
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.
Aaleyah in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 17,039 of them was named Aaleyah, which outranked 89.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,908Pia105
- #1,908Shoshana105
- #1,908Sydnee105
- #1,929Aaleyah104
- #1,929Aiza104
- #1,929Aoife104
- #1,929Caliyah104
- #1,942Abrianna103
- #1,942Aniah103
- #1,942Anylah103
Tied with 12 names at #1,929; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.