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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202004peak #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 2004

No state had 5 or more boys named Aalijah in 2004, 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 2004

girls
#14,179
6 births · 1 in 306,042 girls
boys
#7,536
9 births · 1 in 220,553 boys

Top girls' names in 2004

  1. #1Emily25,042
  2. #2Emma21,625
  3. #3Madison20,628
  4. #4Olivia16,108
  5. #5Hannah15,614
  6. #6Abigail15,436
  7. #7Isabella15,021
  8. #8Ashley14,377
  9. #9Samantha13,786
  10. #10Elizabeth13,577
  11. #14,179Aalijah6

Top boys' names in 2004

  1. #1Jacob27,911
  2. #2Michael25,470
  3. #3Joshua24,214
  4. #4Matthew22,882
  5. #5Ethan22,210
  6. #6Andrew21,717
  7. #7Daniel21,018
  8. #8William20,237
  9. #9Joseph20,147
  10. #10Christopher19,636
  11. #7,536Aalijah9
More about 2004

girls

1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 306,042 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 24.7% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aalijah
  1. #12,761Zynia7
  2. #12,761Zyniah7
  3. #12,761Zyra7
  4. #14,179Aalijah6
  5. #14,179Aaliha6
  6. #14,179Aalisha6
  7. #14,179Aaliyan6
  8. #16,099Aafreen5
  9. #16,099Aajah5
  10. #16,099Aala5

Tied with 1,919 names at #14,179; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2003
Risers
  1. ↑ 948Rubi#1,561 → #613
  2. ↑ 607Kaydence#984 → #377
  3. ↑ 548Marin#1,383 → #835
  4. ↑ 543Diya#1,416 → #873
  5. ↑ 479Kadence#869 → #390
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,607Arly#949 → #2,556
  2. ↓ 433Shakira#747 → #1,180
  3. ↓ 414Anais#990 → #1,404
  4. ↓ 365Lisbeth#742 → #1,107
  5. ↓ 274Reanna#990 → #1,264

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

boys

1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 220,553 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 43.0% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aalijah
  1. #6,976Zubair10
  2. #6,976Zuhair10
  3. #6,976Zyair10
  4. #7,536Aalijah9
  5. #7,536Aadam9
  6. #7,536Aaiden9
  7. #7,536Aayden9
  8. #8,143Aashay8
  9. #8,143Abass8
  10. #8,143Abdiaziz8

Tied with 606 names at #7,536; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2003
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,308Koda#2,238 → #930
  2. ↑ 1,190Tayshaun#2,153 → #963
  3. ↑ 1,006Kanye#1,492 → #486
  4. ↑ 910Kyan#1,497 → #587
  5. ↑ 814Jaidyn#1,630 → #816
Fallers
  1. ↓ 455Jahiem#873 → #1,328
  2. ↓ 325Ervin#942 → #1,267
  3. ↓ 323Jahir#809 → #1,132
  4. ↓ 282Jaheim#457 → #739
  5. ↓ 270Sabastian#946 → #1,216

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

See the top 100 for 2004 →