Aleah
#965 for girls in 2025, 265 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 814 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,592since 1961
Aleah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aleah has never cracked the top 300 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 | #965 | 265 |
| 2024 | #756 | 372 |
| 2023 | #742 | 379 |
| 2022 | #669 | 436 |
| 2021 | #645 | 461 |
| 2020 | #582 | 501 |
| 2019 | #538 | 571 |
| 2018 | #547 | 565 |
| 2017 | #506 | 617 |
| 2016 | #455 | 707 |
| 2015 | #444 | 713 |
| 2014 | #423 | 758 |
| 2013 | #395 | 778 |
| 2012 | #418 | 753 |
| 2011 | #390 | 814 |
| 2010 | #450 | 683 |
| 2009 | #520 | 583 |
| 2008 | #620 | 495 |
| 2007 | #640 | 463 |
| 2006 | #667 | 431 |
| 2005 | #737 | 366 |
| 2004 | #696 | 388 |
| 2003 | #777 | 319 |
| 2002 | #727 | 335 |
| 2001 | #646 | 391 |
| 2000 | #603 | 419 |
| 1999 | #654 | 351 |
| 1998 | #678 | 339 |
| 1997 | #700 | 308 |
| 1996 | #708 | 299 |
| 1995 | #778 | 256 |
| 1994 | #939 | 199 |
| 1993 | #1,358 | 121 |
| 1992 | #1,537 | 101 |
| 1991 | #1,492 | 105 |
| 1990 | #1,410 | 112 |
| 1989 | #1,491 | 97 |
| 1988 | #1,491 | 91 |
| 1987 | #1,762 | 67 |
| 1986 | #1,770 | 65 |
| 1985 | #1,760 | 64 |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 |
| 1983 | #1,715 | 63 |
| 1982 | #1,551 | 76 |
| 1981 | #1,568 | 75 |
| 1980 | #2,278 | 43 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #4,593 | 13 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
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| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aleah! It came in at #5,851, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Aleah is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#205 · 1 in 755
- New Mexico#252 · 1 in 891
- Iowa#304 · 1 in 1,202
- Indiana#315 · 1 in 1,441
- Ohio#335 · 1 in 1,701
Best ever in a state: #121 in West Virginia, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #205 | 9 | 1 in 755 |
| New Mexico | #252 | 9 | 1 in 891 |
| Iowa | #304 | 11 | 1 in 1,202 |
| Indiana | #315 | 22 | 1 in 1,441 |
| Ohio | #335 | 32 | 1 in 1,701 |
| Wisconsin | #350 | 16 | 1 in 1,532 |
| Colorado | #358 | 16 | 1 in 1,490 |
| Oregon | #369 | 11 | 1 in 1,421 |
| Tennessee | #371 | 18 | 1 in 1,695 |
| Kentucky | #375 | 11 | 1 in 1,753 |
| North Carolina | #399 | 24 | 1 in 1,934 |
| Louisiana | #436 | 11 | 1 in 1,878 |
| Missouri | #437 | 13 | 1 in 2,155 |
| South Carolina | #447 | 9 | 1 in 2,062 |
| Minnesota | #452 | 12 | 1 in 2,066 |
| Alabama | #461 | 10 | 1 in 2,002 |
| Oklahoma | #462 | 9 | 1 in 1,913 |
| Pennsylvania | #471 | 22 | 1 in 2,483 |
| Arkansas | #486 | 6 | 1 in 1,967 |
| Kansas | #521 | 6 | 1 in 2,293 |
| Utah | #522 | 8 | 1 in 2,381 |
| Virginia | #536 | 14 | 1 in 2,621 |
| Maryland | #555 | 9 | 1 in 2,747 |
| Arizona | #566 | 13 | 1 in 2,579 |
| Florida | #574 | 27 | 1 in 3,049 |
| California | #576 | 67 | 1 in 3,258 |
| Georgia | #586 | 18 | 1 in 2,818 |
| Washington | #591 | 11 | 1 in 2,851 |
| Massachusetts | #651 | 7 | 1 in 3,749 |
| Illinois | #663 | 18 | 1 in 3,513 |
| Texas | #701 | 43 | 1 in 3,876 |
| New York | #749 | 23 | 1 in 4,121 |
| New Jersey | #918 | 7 | 1 in 5,475 |
| Michigan | #974 | 7 | 1 in 6,106 |
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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 Aleah
- 209 spots since 2024 (#756 → #965)
- 383 spots since 2020 (#582 → #965)
- 521 spots since 2015 (#444 → #965)
- Biggest jump: 419 spots in 1994 (#1,358 → #939)
- Biggest drop: 209 spots in 2025 (#756 → #965)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2011 at #390 (814 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,161 girls born in 2011 were named Aleah (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,065 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 41.9% of all girls named Aleah (6,959) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #5,851 (1961) | #6,195 |
| 1970s | 136 | #3,015 (1973) | #4,427 |
| 1980s | 691 | #1,491 (1989) | #1,740 |
| 1990s | 2,191 | #654 (1999) | #1,025 |
| 2000s | 4,190 | #520 (2009) | #663 |
| 2010s | 6,959 | #390 (2011) | #457 |
| 2020s | 2,414 | #582 (2020) | #727 |
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.
Aleah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 3,151 of them was named Aleah, which outranked 97.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).