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 | ||
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| 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 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,245 · 1 in 35,723
Best ever in a state: #2,245 in Texas, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #2,245 | 5 | 1 in 35,723 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 127,912 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 59.8% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,478Zidane16
- #5,478Zlatan16
- #5,478Zymier16
- #5,741Aalijah15
- #5,741Abdiaziz15
- #5,741Adric15
- #5,741Ahnaf15
- #6,036Aahil14
- #6,036Abrian14
- #6,036Abyan14
Tied with 294 names at #5,741; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.