Alyah
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 58 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,477since 1994
Alyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alyah has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #2,895 | 58 |
| 2024 | #2,661 | 65 |
| 2023 | #3,091 | 53 |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2016 | #4,632 | 30 |
| 2015 | #3,346 | 48 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 |
| 2012 | #3,040 | 55 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 |
| 2010 | #2,976 | 57 |
| 2009 | #2,752 | 65 |
| 2008 | #3,316 | 50 |
| 2007 | #2,992 | 59 |
| 2006 | #2,916 | 59 |
| 2005 | #2,787 | 59 |
| 2004 | #3,180 | 48 |
| 2003 | #2,885 | 53 |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 |
| 1999 | #3,509 | 35 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 |
| 1997 | #3,547 | 32 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alyah! It came in at #6,319, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994, when fewer than 15 girls a year got the name.
Where Alyah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,921 · 1 in 15,866
- Texas#2,852 · 1 in 25,913
Best ever in a state: #927 in Michigan, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,921 | 11 | 1 in 15,866 |
| Texas | #2,852 | 6 | 1 in 25,913 |
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See more about Alyah
- 234 spots since 2024 (#2,661 → #2,895)
- 555 spots since 2020 (#3,450 → #2,895)
- 451 spots since 2015 (#3,346 → #2,895)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2001 at #2,600 (58 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,926 girls born in 2024 were named Alyah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,600 in 2001, was only 1 in 31,045 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.2% of all girls named Alyah (564) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 155 | #3,509 (1999) | #4,358 |
| 2000s | 564 | #2,600 (2001) | #2,874 |
| 2010s | 450 | #2,976 (2010) | #3,559 |
| 2020s | 308 | #2,661 (2024) | #3,191 |
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.
Alyah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 41,022 of them was named Alyah, which outranked 78.9% 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).
- #3,678Zamirah41
- #3,678Zanyla41
- #3,678Zephyr41
- #3,735Alyah40
- #3,735Acadia40
- #3,735Alaysha40
- #3,735Aleyza40
- #3,801Aarvi39
- #3,801Aislin39
- #3,801Aleeah39
Tied with 65 names at #3,735; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.