Aalyah

Peak · girls
2002 · 51 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
738
since 1994

Aalyah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Aalyah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank1990200020102020peak #2,888, 2002girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024#7,25115
2023#8,05513
2022#8,03213
2021#6,96716
2020#7,21215
2019#12,4487
2018#9,15111
2017#8,77612
2016#7,60215
2015#5,65323
2014#6,98717
2013#6,25520
2012#5,25326
2011#4,15135
2010#4,30634
2009#4,93129
2008#4,00639
2007#3,72143
2006#3,91938
2005#3,94236
2004#3,81937
2003#3,29144
2002#2,88851
2001#3,63136
2000#5,15122
1999#7,71612
1998#6,71914
1997#4,81921
1996#6,72313
1995#6,64113
1994#8,12210
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five girls were named Aalyah! It came in at #8,122, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2019, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.

Where Aalyah is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Aalyah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Aalyah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 3,705 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2002 at #2,888 (51 births)
  • Births halved by 2013, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 35,233
  • Highest: 1 in 35,233 girls born in 2002 were named Aalyah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 50.8% of all girls named Aalyah (375) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s83#4,819 (1997)#6,790
2000s375#2,888 (2002)#3,930
2010s200#4,151 (2011)#7,058
2020s80#6,967 (2021)#8,072

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.

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