Aleyah
#1,710 for girls in 2025, 119 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 135 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,805since 1991
Aleyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aleyah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,710 | 119 |
| 2024 | #1,895 | 105 |
| 2023 | #1,736 | 118 |
| 2022 | #1,648 | 128 |
| 2021 | #1,622 | 129 |
| 2020 | #1,792 | 110 |
| 2019 | #1,668 | 126 |
| 2018 | #2,557 | 68 |
| 2017 | #2,018 | 97 |
| 2016 | #2,168 | 89 |
| 2015 | #1,894 | 107 |
| 2014 | #1,781 | 115 |
| 2013 | #1,775 | 115 |
| 2012 | #1,602 | 135 |
| 2011 | #1,728 | 119 |
| 2010 | #1,992 | 100 |
| 2009 | #1,876 | 112 |
| 2008 | #1,977 | 106 |
| 2007 | #2,034 | 100 |
| 2006 | #2,459 | 75 |
| 2005 | #2,553 | 67 |
| 2004 | #2,998 | 52 |
| 2003 | #2,923 | 52 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 |
| 2001 | #2,540 | 60 |
| 2000 | #2,708 | 54 |
| 1999 | #2,812 | 48 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 1994 | #2,465 | 51 |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aleyah! It came in at #13,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1993, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Aleyah is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#681 · 1 in 5,052
- New York#1,597 · 1 in 15,889
- California#2,775 · 1 in 40,417
Best ever in a state: #427 in New Mexico, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #681 | 5 | 1 in 5,052 |
| New York | #1,597 | 7 | 1 in 15,889 |
| California | #2,775 | 6 | 1 in 40,417 |
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See more about Aleyah
- 185 spots since 2024 (#1,895 → #1,710)
- 82 spots since 2020 (#1,792 → #1,710)
- 184 spots since 2015 (#1,894 → #1,710)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2012 at #1,602 (135 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,720 girls born in 2021 were named Aleyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,506 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,602 in 2012, was only 1 in 13,045 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.2% of all girls named Aleyah (1,071) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 281 | #2,465 (1994) | #4,249 |
| 2000s | 744 | #1,876 (2009) | #2,448 |
| 2010s | 1,071 | #1,602 (2012) | #1,918 |
| 2020s | 709 | #1,622 (2021) | #1,734 |
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.
Aleyah in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
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1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 35,015 of them was named Aleyah, which outranked 84.4% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,432Tavia52
- #2,432Venus52
- #2,432Yuri52
- #2,465Aleyah51
- #2,465Anayeli51
- #2,465Andreana51
- #2,465Annah51
- #2,503Alise50
- #2,503Alixandra50
- #2,503Ambrosia50
Tied with 37 names at #2,465; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.