Aliyah
#263 for girls in 2025, 1,188 births · Last seen for boys in 2019 at #12,145
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 2,301 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 49,011since 1971
Aliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aliyah has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | #263 | 1,188 | — | |
| 2024 | #237 | 1,314 | — | |
| 2023 | #220 | 1,352 | — | |
| 2022 | #233 | 1,308 | — | |
| 2021 | #208 | 1,441 | — | |
| 2020 | #188 | 1,532 | — | |
| 2019 | #173 | 1,678 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #161 | 1,777 | — | |
| 2017 | #154 | 1,915 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #155 | 2,008 | — | |
| 2015 | #164 | 1,974 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #167 | 1,971 | — | |
| 2013 | #148 | 2,115 | — | |
| 2012 | #140 | 2,265 | — | |
| 2011 | #133 | 2,301 | — | |
| 2010 | #143 | 2,163 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #158 | 1,991 | — | |
| 2008 | #191 | 1,754 | — | |
| 2007 | #213 | 1,611 | — | |
| 2006 | #235 | 1,452 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #233 | 1,462 | — | |
| 2004 | #221 | 1,529 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #236 | 1,392 | — | |
| 2002 | #203 | 1,607 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #226 | 1,411 | — | |
| 2000 | #287 | 1,116 | — | |
| 1999 | #345 | 867 | — | |
| 1998 | #336 | 878 | — | |
| 1997 | #322 | 897 | — | |
| 1996 | #391 | 675 | — | |
| 1995 | #338 | 785 | — | |
| 1994 | #357 | 732 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,068 | 66 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,550 | 48 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,972 | 32 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,246 | 27 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,851 | 31 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,253 | 26 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | — | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
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| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Aliyah! It came in at #8,324, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Aliyah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#95 · 1 in 357
- Nevada#114 · 1 in 487
- California#114 · 1 in 635
- Arizona#133 · 1 in 603
- West Virginia#139 · 1 in 456
Best ever in a state: #53 in New Mexico, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #95 | 14 | 1 in 357 |
| California | #114 | 275 | 1 in 635 |
| Nevada | #114 | 20 | 1 in 487 |
| Arizona | #133 | 46 | 1 in 603 |
| West Virginia | #139 | 12 | 1 in 456 |
| Florida | #164 | 103 | 1 in 812 |
| Oregon | #169 | 22 | 1 in 625 |
| Delaware | #170 | 5 | 1 in 473 |
| Texas | #170 | 175 | 1 in 888 |
| Washington | #170 | 39 | 1 in 757 |
| Colorado | #176 | 31 | 1 in 714 |
| New Jersey | #202 | 39 | 1 in 934 |
| Illinois | #205 | 51 | 1 in 949 |
| South Dakota | #208 | 5 | 1 in 559 |
| Utah | #211 | 20 | 1 in 846 |
| New Hampshire | #213 | 5 | 1 in 741 |
| Massachusetts | #214 | 27 | 1 in 921 |
| Connecticut | #222 | 14 | 1 in 859 |
| New York | #227 | 75 | 1 in 1,083 |
| Indiana | #235 | 30 | 1 in 946 |
| Iowa | #235 | 14 | 1 in 835 |
| Arkansas | #240 | 13 | 1 in 837 |
| Georgia | #244 | 44 | 1 in 1,029 |
| Nebraska | #245 | 9 | 1 in 807 |
| Minnesota | #255 | 22 | 1 in 1,013 |
| Oklahoma | #261 | 15 | 1 in 991 |
| Maryland | #269 | 21 | 1 in 1,053 |
| Virginia | #291 | 27 | 1 in 1,281 |
| Missouri | #292 | 21 | 1 in 1,178 |
| South Carolina | #296 | 16 | 1 in 1,108 |
| Ohio | #299 | 38 | 1 in 1,279 |
| Tennessee | #300 | 26 | 1 in 1,201 |
| Louisiana | #304 | 17 | 1 in 1,095 |
| Kansas | #347 | 9 | 1 in 1,287 |
| Kentucky | #363 | 12 | 1 in 1,418 |
| Alabama | #364 | 14 | 1 in 1,363 |
| Idaho | #369 | 5 | 1 in 1,285 |
| North Carolina | #402 | 27 | 1 in 1,669 |
| Michigan | #453 | 20 | 1 in 1,917 |
| Pennsylvania | #463 | 24 | 1 in 2,033 |
| Mississippi | #466 | 6 | 1 in 1,635 |
| Wisconsin | #467 | 11 | 1 in 1,952 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 Aliyah
- 26 spots since 2024 (#237 → #263)
- 75 spots since 2020 (#188 → #263)
- 99 spots since 2015 (#164 → #263)
- Biggest jump: 1,711 spots in 1994 (#2,068 → #357)
- Biggest drop: 53 spots in 1996 (#338 → #391)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2011 at #133 (2,301 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 764 girls born in 2011 were named Aliyah (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,353 girls born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 41.1% of all girls named Aliyah (20,167) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 52 | #5,092 (1979) | #7,273 |
| 1980s | 283 | #2,744 (1988) | #3,208 |
| 1990s | 5,049 | #322 (1997) | #1,163 |
| 2000s | 15,325 | #158 (2009) | #220 |
| 2010s | 20,167 | #133 (2011) | #154 |
| 2020s | 8,135 | #188 (2020) | #225 |
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.
Aliyah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 1,139 of them was named Aliyah, which outranked 98.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.