Alijah
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #469 for boys in 2025, 651 births
Given to boys 90.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 762 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,231since 1987
Alijah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | #469 | 651 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #429 | 739 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #443 | 702 |
| 2022 | #4,202 | 34 | #470 | 653 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 | #408 | 762 |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | #447 | 669 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 | #483 | 606 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 | #489 | 590 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 | #476 | 619 |
| 2016 | #2,966 | 56 | #509 | 588 |
| 2015 | #2,194 | 86 | #482 | 621 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #484 | 580 |
| 2013 | #5,486 | 24 | #509 | 526 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #453 | 600 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #458 | 582 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 | #470 | 553 |
| 2009 | #3,737 | 42 | #471 | 580 |
| 2008 | #3,420 | 48 | #470 | 588 |
| 2007 | #3,918 | 40 | #550 | 468 |
| 2006 | #2,555 | 71 | #586 | 418 |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 | #596 | 379 |
| 2004 | #2,851 | 56 | #633 | 333 |
| 2003 | #2,439 | 67 | #658 | 300 |
| 2002 | #2,709 | 56 | #684 | 266 |
| 2001 | #1,995 | 85 | #908 | 172 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | #1,027 | 142 |
| 1999 | #2,640 | 53 | #1,039 | 133 |
| 1998 | #2,461 | 56 | #1,189 | 104 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #1,263 | 91 |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 | #1,359 | 79 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | #2,347 | 33 |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | #3,141 | 21 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Alijah! It came in at #6,951, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987–1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Alijah is popular in 1987
No state had 5 or more boys named Alijah in 1987, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Alijah
- 40 spots since 2024 (#429 → #469)
- 22 spots since 2020 (#447 → #469)
- 13 spots since 2015 (#482 → #469)
- Biggest jump: 224 spots in 2002 (#908 → #684)
- Biggest drop: 62 spots in 2022 (#408 → #470)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2021 at #408 (762 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,296 boys born in 2021 were named Alijah (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,624 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 41.2% of all boys named Alijah (5,865) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 11 | #6,941 (1989) | #6,946 |
| 1990s | 533 | #1,039 (1999) | #2,858 |
| 2000s | 3,646 | #470 (2008) | #658 |
| 2010s | 5,865 | #453 (2012) | #481 |
| 2020s | 4,176 | #408 (2021) | #444 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alijah in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 373,397 of them was named Alijah, which outranked 14.7% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,201 names at #6,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.