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 | ||
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| 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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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 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Mexico#303 · 1 in 1,318
- West Virginia#318 · 1 in 1,676
- Mississippi#321 · 1 in 1,498
- South Carolina#329 · 1 in 1,632
- Massachusetts#390 · 1 in 2,669
Best ever in a state: #131 in New Mexico, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #303 | 7 | 1 in 1,318 |
| West Virginia | #318 | 5 | 1 in 1,676 |
| Mississippi | #321 | 9 | 1 in 1,498 |
| South Carolina | #329 | 13 | 1 in 1,632 |
| Massachusetts | #390 | 11 | 1 in 2,669 |
| Alabama | #391 | 11 | 1 in 2,034 |
| Colorado | #404 | 13 | 1 in 2,063 |
| Pennsylvania | #406 | 23 | 1 in 2,598 |
| Arizona | #409 | 16 | 1 in 2,299 |
| Tennessee | #410 | 15 | 1 in 2,371 |
| Virginia | #410 | 17 | 1 in 2,454 |
| Florida | #413 | 37 | 1 in 2,524 |
| Kentucky | #441 | 8 | 1 in 2,776 |
| Kansas | #443 | 7 | 1 in 2,229 |
| Maryland | #447 | 10 | 1 in 2,748 |
| Ohio | #454 | 20 | 1 in 2,984 |
| Arkansas | #468 | 6 | 1 in 2,375 |
| Missouri | #470 | 12 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Michigan | #483 | 16 | 1 in 2,999 |
| Illinois | #488 | 22 | 1 in 2,996 |
| Indiana | #489 | 12 | 1 in 2,971 |
| Texas | #495 | 56 | 1 in 3,219 |
| Wisconsin | #500 | 9 | 1 in 3,013 |
| Oregon | #518 | 6 | 1 in 2,997 |
| Louisiana | #528 | 9 | 1 in 2,746 |
| California | #533 | 57 | 1 in 3,983 |
| North Carolina | #556 | 13 | 1 in 3,878 |
| Minnesota | #558 | 8 | 1 in 3,502 |
| New Jersey | #564 | 11 | 1 in 3,775 |
| Georgia | #677 | 12 | 1 in 4,474 |
| Utah | #681 | 5 | 1 in 4,320 |
| Washington | #740 | 7 | 1 in 5,095 |
| New York | #891 | 14 | 1 in 7,320 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 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 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 73,114 of them was named Alijah, which outranked 71.5% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,317Zanya25
- #5,317Zina25
- #5,317Zyanya25
- #5,486Alijah24
- #5,486Aamiyah24
- #5,486Aasiyah24
- #5,486Abrar24
- #5,644Aaleah23
- #5,644Abri23
- #5,644Abria23
Tied with 157 names at #5,486; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 3,596 of them was named Alijah, which outranked 96.4% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.