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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202015peak #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 2015

No state had 5 or more boys named Aalijah in 2015, 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 2015

girls
#8,931
12 births · 1 in 148,758 girls
boys
#5,289
17 births · 1 in 112,750 boys

Top girls' names in 2015

  1. #1Emma20,487
  2. #2Olivia19,729
  3. #3Sophia17,454
  4. #4Ava16,416
  5. #5Isabella15,667
  6. #6Mia14,943
  7. #7Abigail12,422
  8. #8Emily11,808
  9. #9Charlotte11,415
  10. #10Harper10,311
  11. #8,931Aalijah12

Top boys' names in 2015

  1. #1Noah19,680
  2. #2Liam18,410
  3. #3Mason16,675
  4. #4Jacob16,005
  5. #5William15,950
  6. #6Ethan15,103
  7. #7James14,865
  8. #8Alexander14,584
  9. #9Michael14,504
  10. #10Benjamin13,732
  11. #5,289Aalijah17
More about 2015

girls

1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 148,758 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 53.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aalijah
  1. #8,447Zita13
  2. #8,447Ziyan13
  3. #8,447Zoraida13
  4. #8,931Aalijah12
  5. #8,931Aahna12
  6. #8,931Aaima12
  7. #8,931Aamilah12
  8. #9,481Aaisha11
  9. #9,481Aalaiyah11
  10. #9,481Aaleah11

Tied with 549 names at #8,931; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2014
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,984Alaia#2,648 → #664
  2. ↑ 1,835Meilani#2,781 → #946
  3. ↑ 1,733Aitana#2,648 → #915
  4. ↑ 1,387Aislinn#2,351 → #964
  5. ↑ 1,072Taya#2,049 → #977
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,075Isis#703 → #1,778
  2. ↓ 502Annabell#923 → #1,425
  3. ↓ 500Anabel#911 → #1,411
  4. ↓ 344Cindy#711 → #1,055
  5. ↓ 334Anabella#529 → #863

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

boys

1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 112,750 of them was named Aalijah, which outranked 62.4% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aalijah
  1. #5,058Zacari18
  2. #5,058Zayvier18
  3. #5,058Zebulun18
  4. #5,289Aalijah17
  5. #5,289Aakash17
  6. #5,289Aaran17
  7. #5,289Abdel17
  8. #5,507Aasim16
  9. #5,507Aasir16
  10. #5,507Abdiaziz16

Tied with 217 names at #5,289; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2014
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,348Riaan#2,277 → #929
  2. ↑ 397Huxley#1,355 → #958
  3. ↑ 355Wilder#1,313 → #958
  4. ↑ 284Jaziel#1,218 → #934
  5. ↑ 268Canaan#1,074 → #806
Fallers
  1. ↓ 676Arnav#891 → #1,567
  2. ↓ 262Jayse#906 → #1,168
  3. ↓ 239Neymar#551 → #790
  4. ↓ 228Rylee#877 → #1,105
  5. ↓ 204Johnathon#915 → #1,119

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

See the top 100 for 2015 →