Aliya

Where Aliya comes from

Aliya hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1925
    Aliya Moldagulova born
    Soviet Kazakh sniper and Heroine of the Soviet Union
  2. 1971
    First appearance
    #3,789 among girls, 16 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1980
    Aliya Nazarbayeva born
    Kazakh businesswoman
  4. 2012
    Peak, #598
    483 babies named Aliya — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Aliya Moldagulova · Soviet Kazakh sniper and Heroine of the Soviet Union, 1925–1944
  • Aliya Nazarbayeva · Kazakh businesswoman, born 1980
  • Aliya Garayeva · Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnast, born 1988
  • Aliya Yussupova · Kazakhstani rhythmic gymnast, born 1984
  • Aliya Kamran · politician in Pakistan

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.