Aliya
#823 for girls in 2025, 330 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 483 births
- Debut · girls
- 16 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,075since 1971
Aliya over time
Rank among girls' names. Aliya has never cracked the top 500 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 | #823 | 330 |
| 2024 | #856 | 316 |
| 2023 | #862 | 310 |
| 2022 | #843 | 332 |
| 2021 | #783 | 362 |
| 2020 | #863 | 312 |
| 2019 | #886 | 304 |
| 2018 | #915 | 293 |
| 2017 | #923 | 287 |
| 2016 | #852 | 332 |
| 2015 | #928 | 293 |
| 2014 | #866 | 318 |
| 2013 | #760 | 358 |
| 2012 | #598 | 483 |
| 2011 | #657 | 432 |
| 2010 | #652 | 450 |
| 2009 | #655 | 452 |
| 2008 | #668 | 460 |
| 2007 | #738 | 395 |
| 2006 | #703 | 404 |
| 2005 | #698 | 396 |
| 2004 | #761 | 342 |
| 2003 | #769 | 323 |
| 2002 | #743 | 327 |
| 2001 | #715 | 343 |
| 2000 | #718 | 322 |
| 1999 | #960 | 215 |
| 1998 | #1,046 | 188 |
| 1997 | #1,148 | 162 |
| 1996 | #1,204 | 149 |
| 1995 | #1,355 | 121 |
| 1994 | #1,476 | 107 |
| 1993 | #2,045 | 67 |
| 1992 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 1991 | #2,320 | 55 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 |
| 1989 | #2,169 | 56 |
| 1988 | #3,225 | 30 |
| 1987 | #2,723 | 36 |
| 1986 | #2,512 | 39 |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #3,340 | 24 |
| 1982 | #2,250 | 44 |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 |
| 1979 | #2,112 | 47 |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #2,276 | 33 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aliya! It came in at #3,789, and was given to 16 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 17 girls a year got the name.
Where Aliya is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#245 · 1 in 921
- Nebraska#365 · 1 in 1,387
- Utah#383 · 1 in 1,648
- Kansas#409 · 1 in 1,729
- Nevada#429 · 1 in 1,738
Best ever in a state: #151 in Alaska, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #245 | 8 | 1 in 921 |
| Nebraska | #365 | 6 | 1 in 1,387 |
| Utah | #383 | 12 | 1 in 1,648 |
| Kansas | #409 | 8 | 1 in 1,729 |
| Nevada | #429 | 7 | 1 in 1,738 |
| Minnesota | #441 | 12 | 1 in 2,146 |
| Massachusetts | #472 | 11 | 1 in 2,475 |
| Ohio | #473 | 22 | 1 in 2,563 |
| Washington | #491 | 14 | 1 in 2,296 |
| Pennsylvania | #509 | 20 | 1 in 2,767 |
| Virginia | #540 | 14 | 1 in 2,687 |
| Oregon | #544 | 7 | 1 in 2,370 |
| Iowa | #571 | 5 | 1 in 2,706 |
| Wisconsin | #606 | 8 | 1 in 3,131 |
| Michigan | #612 | 13 | 1 in 3,420 |
| Maryland | #619 | 8 | 1 in 3,159 |
| Kentucky | #623 | 6 | 1 in 3,371 |
| Florida | #636 | 25 | 1 in 3,443 |
| Colorado | #650 | 8 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Indiana | #671 | 9 | 1 in 3,612 |
| South Carolina | #677 | 6 | 1 in 3,200 |
| California | #685 | 57 | 1 in 4,024 |
| Alabama | #694 | 6 | 1 in 3,497 |
| Illinois | #710 | 17 | 1 in 3,896 |
| Missouri | #732 | 7 | 1 in 4,205 |
| Oklahoma | #761 | 5 | 1 in 3,488 |
| Arizona | #804 | 9 | 1 in 4,055 |
| Texas | #834 | 35 | 1 in 4,792 |
| New Jersey | #836 | 8 | 1 in 4,911 |
| New York | #842 | 19 | 1 in 5,028 |
| North Carolina | #862 | 10 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Georgia | #868 | 11 | 1 in 4,802 |
| Tennessee | #1,055 | 5 | 1 in 6,439 |
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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 Aliya
- 33 spots since 2024 (#856 → #823)
- 40 spots since 2020 (#863 → #823)
- 105 spots since 2015 (#928 → #823)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 2000 (#960 → #718)
- Biggest drop: 162 spots in 2013 (#598 → #760)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2012 at #598 (483 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,646 girls born in 2012 were named Aliya (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,871 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 34.0% of all girls named Aliya (3,764) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 257 | #2,112 (1979) | #2,798 |
| 1980s | 391 | #2,119 (1981) | #2,608 |
| 1990s | 1,151 | #960 (1999) | #1,737 |
| 2000s | 3,764 | #655 (2009) | #717 |
| 2010s | 3,550 | #598 (2012) | #804 |
| 2020s | 1,962 | #783 (2021) | #838 |
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.
Aliya in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 4,111 of them was named Aliya, which outranked 96.7% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.