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
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 22 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 304since 2002
Aalijah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,738 | 10 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,445 | 17 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,480 | 22 | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #5,433 | 16 |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | — | #6,226 | 12 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | — | |
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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 2003
No state had 5 or more boys named Aalijah in 2003, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Aalijah
- 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)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2019 at #4,480 (22 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 51.6% of all boys named Aalijah (157) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 79 | #5,767 (2008) | #7,760 |
| 2010s | 157 | #4,480 (2019) | #5,768 |
| 2020s | 68 | #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 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 304,524 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 24.9% 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).
- #12,408Zyana7
- #12,408Zykiria7
- #12,408Zyla7
- #13,844Aalijah6
- #13,844Aahliyah6
- #13,844Aaishah6
- #13,844Aakriti6
- #15,784Aadya5
- #15,784Aalaiyah5
- #15,784Aalayna5
Tied with 1,939 names at #13,844; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 197,535 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 47.4% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,258Zaylan11
- #6,258Zohair11
- #6,258Zuhair11
- #6,715Aalijah10
- #6,715Aadam10
- #6,715Aadarsh10
- #6,715Abdulai10
- #7,245Aarin9
- #7,245Abdi9
- #7,245Abhimanyu9
Tied with 529 names at #6,715; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.