Aalijah

Last seen for girls in 2018 at #12,464 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 67.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2019 · 22 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
304
since 2002

Aalijah over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202002peak #4,480, 2019girlsat peakboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#8,2439
2024—#7,25711
2023—#7,73810
2022—#5,44517
2021—#7,08911
2020—#7,50210
2019—#4,48022
2018#12,4647#4,91819
2017#7,44215#7,09511
2016#11,7818#7,15711
2015#8,93112#5,28917
2014#8,96612#4,53821
2013#9,61211#7,02611
2012#13,4837#6,00114
2011#13,3477#5,43316
2010—#5,74115
2009#13,7047#6,80212
2008#17,5045#5,76715
2007#12,6768#7,59010
2006#17,1685#12,0555
2005—#6,22612
2004#14,1796#7,5369
2003#13,8446#6,71510
2002#10,2469#9,3926
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First appearance
2002

The first year at least five boys were named Aalijah! It came in at #9,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 2006, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Aalijah is popular in 2002

No state had 5 or more boys named Aalijah in 2002, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Aalijah
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 986 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #8,243)
  • 741 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #8,243)
  • 2,954 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #8,243)
Rise & fade · boys
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2002
  • Peaked 2019 at #4,480 (22 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 81,555
  • Highest: 1 in 81,555 boys born in 2019 were named Aalijah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 51.6% of all boys named Aalijah (157) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2018
  • Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s79#5,767 (2008)#7,760
2010s157#4,480 (2019)#5,768
2020s68#5,445 (2022)#7,212

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

Aalijah in 2002

girls
#10,246
9 births · 1 in 199,654 girls
boys
#9,392
6 births · 1 in 323,586 boys

Top girls' names in 2002

  1. #1Emily24,470
  2. #2Madison21,774
  3. #3Hannah18,828
  4. #4Emma16,558
  5. #5Alexis15,636
  6. #6Ashley15,344
  7. #7Abigail15,303
  8. #8Sarah14,779
  9. #9Samantha14,671
  10. #10Olivia14,631
  11. #10,246Aalijah9

Top boys' names in 2002

  1. #1Jacob30,586
  2. #2Michael28,258
  3. #3Joshua25,998
  4. #4Matthew25,154
  5. #5Ethan22,113
  6. #6Andrew22,037
  7. #7Joseph21,920
  8. #8Christopher21,689
  9. #9Nicholas21,390
  10. #10Daniel21,352
  11. #9,392Aalijah6
More about 2002

girls

1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 199,654 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 43.3% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aalijah
  1. #9,482Zykeriah10
  2. #9,482Zyon10
  3. #9,482Zyra10
  4. #10,246Aalijah9
  5. #10,246Aailyah9
  6. #10,246Aaisha9
  7. #10,246Aalycia9
  8. #11,108Aalaya8
  9. #11,108Aariel8
  10. #11,108Aarin8

Tied with 861 names at #10,246; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,168Cadence#2,126 → #958
  2. ↑ 949Lisbeth#1,573 → #624
  3. ↑ 710Ashanti#825 → #115
  4. ↑ 464Elle#1,076 → #612
  5. ↑ 412Nyla#865 → #453
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,141Citlalli#609 → #1,750
  2. ↓ 748Nallely#772 → #1,520
  3. ↓ 617Dafne#967 → #1,584
  4. ↓ 582Beyonce#700 → #1,282
  5. ↓ 540Mikaila#928 → #1,468

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

boys

1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 323,586 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 24.8% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aalijah
  1. #8,456Zyire7
  2. #8,456Zymere7
  3. #8,456Zyrus7
  4. #9,392Aalijah6
  5. #9,392Aarav6
  6. #9,392Aarik6
  7. #9,392Aarush6
  8. #10,667Aakarsh5
  9. #10,667Aakeem5
  10. #10,667Aamarion5

Tied with 1,274 names at #9,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2001
Risers
  1. ↑ 10,021Omarion#10,556 → #535
  2. ↑ 3,583Amarion#4,302 → #719
  3. ↑ 3,370Yahir#3,974 → #604
  4. ↑ 1,466Gael#2,185 → #719
  5. ↑ 1,287Lisandro#2,185 → #898
Fallers
  1. ↓ 546Daunte#968 → #1,514
  2. ↓ 405Imanol#921 → #1,326
  3. ↓ 376Shemar#594 → #970
  4. ↓ 347Jade#958 → #1,305
  5. ↓ 311Jalon#873 → #1,184

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

See the top 100 for 2002 →