Aaliyah

What Aaliyah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Aaliyah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Aaliyah?

US: Falling: down from #47 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #133 in 2015, #132 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2012, when 5,523 girls got the name (#36 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 617 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 688 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 852 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (5.76 per 1,000 girls), NM (5.14 per 1,000 girls), DC (4.46 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Aaliyah is #101 in the US and #132 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Aaliyah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Aasiyah23 US · 57 E&W
• Aaliya45 US · 34 E&W
• Aariyah40 US · 19 E&W
• Aalayah54 US · 3 E&W
• Aafiyah13 US · 39 E&W
• Aariya21 US · 19 E&W
• Aasiya15 US · 13 E&W
• Aaleyah21 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Aliyah

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Aaliyah

Girls

• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Aleah#965Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #444 in 2015, #965 in 2025
• Fatima#330Spanish and Portuguese, meaning “abstainer”^*
• Noor#659“light”^*
• Laila#413“night”^*
• Sariyah#624“a cloud that comes by night”^*

For a brother

• Mohamed#527Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Nasir#486Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #486 vs #2,133 in 2025
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Ahmed#703Variant of Ahmad, meaning “praiseworthy”^*
• Abdullah#763“servant of God”^*
• Mohammed#595Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Aaliyah’s. Rank is US 2025.