Aaliyah
#101 for girls in 2025, 2,607 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 5,523 births
- Debut · girls
- 18 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 24 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 109,971since 1976
Aaliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | #101 | 2,607 | — | |
| 2024 | #95 | 2,712 | — | |
| 2023 | #85 | 2,858 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #69 | 3,286 | — | |
| 2021 | #61 | 3,619 | — | |
| 2020 | #65 | 3,584 | — | |
| 2019 | #70 | 3,675 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #65 | 3,845 | — | |
| 2017 | #57 | 4,197 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #53 | 4,660 | — | |
| 2015 | #47 | 4,884 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #45 | 4,902 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #37 | 5,246 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #36 | 5,523 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #46 | 5,129 | — | |
| 2010 | #56 | 4,673 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #63 | 4,378 | — | |
| 2008 | #76 | 4,046 | — | |
| 2007 | #83 | 3,961 | — | |
| 2006 | #90 | 3,745 | — | |
| 2005 | #93 | 3,459 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #94 | 3,492 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #90 | 3,673 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #64 | 4,779 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #96 | 3,352 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #211 | 1,496 | — | |
| 1999 | #287 | 1,088 | — | |
| 1998 | #222 | 1,399 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #176 | 1,739 | — | |
| 1996 | #335 | 831 | — | |
| 1995 | #225 | 1,256 | — | |
| 1994 | #202 | 1,451 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,093 | 28 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,440 | 39 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,430 | 38 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,050 | 46 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aaliyah! It came in at #3,678, and was given to 18 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Aaliyah is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Pennsylvania#525 · 1 in 5,077
- New Jersey#645 · 1 in 5,181
- New York#1,415 · 1 in 16,388
Best ever in a state: #6 in New Mexico, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #525 | 13 | 1 in 5,077 |
| New Jersey | #645 | 7 | 1 in 5,181 |
| New York | #1,415 | 6 | 1 in 16,388 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Aaliyah
- 6 spots since 2024 (#95 → #101)
- 36 spots since 2020 (#65 → #101)
- 54 spots since 2015 (#47 → #101)
- Biggest jump: 4,322 spots in 1994 (#4,524 → #202)
- Biggest drop: 110 spots in 1996 (#225 → #335)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2012 at #36 (5,523 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 24 yrs · run 2001–2024
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 319 girls born in 2012 were named Aaliyah (0.31%)
- Latest: 1 in 617 girls born in 2025 (0.16%)
- 42.5% of all girls named Aaliyah (46,734) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 142 | #2,050 (1978) | #2,604 |
| 1980s | 209 | #2,440 (1980) | #4,292 |
| 1990s | 7,839 | #176 (1997) | #2,259 |
| 2000s | 36,381 | #63 (2009) | #96 |
| 2010s | 46,734 | #36 (2012) | #51 |
| 2020s | 18,666 | #61 (2021) | #79 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aaliyah in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 33,301 of them was named Aaliyah, which outranked 82.1% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,012Toshia47
- #2,012Yasmeen47
- #2,012Zabrina47
- #2,050Aaliyah46
- #2,050Aneesah46
- #2,050Arelis46
- #2,050August46
- #2,092Aiesha45
- #2,092Aziza45
- #2,092China45
Tied with 41 names at #2,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.