Aalyah
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 51 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 738since 1994
Aalyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aalyah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 |
| 2007 | #3,721 | 43 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 |
| 2003 | #3,291 | 44 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
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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 2016
No state had 5 or more girls named Aalyah in 2016, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Aalyah
- 3,666 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #10,917)
- 3,705 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #10,917)
- 5,264 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2002 at #2,888 (51 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 50.8% of all girls named Aalyah (375) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 83 | #4,819 (1997) | #6,790 |
| 2000s | 375 | #2,888 (2002) | #3,930 |
| 2010s | 200 | #4,151 (2011) | #7,058 |
| 2020s | 80 | #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.
Aalyah in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 118,135 of them was named Aalyah, which outranked 59.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,230Ziyonna16
- #7,230Zuly16
- #7,230Zuzu16
- #7,602Aalyah15
- #7,602Aamilah15
- #7,602Abeeha15
- #7,602Abrar15
- #7,988Aadhira14
- #7,988Aanaya14
- #7,988Abia14
Tied with 385 names at #7,602; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.