Aleah

Where Aleah comes from

Probably a fanciful spelling of Alia, Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aleah
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1961
    First appearance
    #5,851 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Aleah Stanbridge born
    South African singer-songwriter
  3. 2003
    Aleah Finnegan born
    Filipino-American artistic gymnast
  4. 2011
    Peak, #390
    814 babies named Aleah — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #742.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Aleah Stanbridge · South African singer-songwriter, 1976–2016
  • Aleah Finnegan · Filipino-American artistic gymnast, born 2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.