Aleah

What Aleah means

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

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #444 in 2015, #965 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Aleah?

US: Falling: down from #444 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1114 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2011, when 814 girls got the name (#390 that year). First in the US records in 1961.

How common

• About 1 in 6,065 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 50,656 baby girls in England and Wales 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 LA (0.55 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.32 per 1,000 girls), MA (0.29 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Aleah is #965 in the US and #4201 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 Aleah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Alia499 US · 49 E&W
• Aleia279 US · 19 E&W
• Aliah193 US · 8 E&W
• Alaiah121 US
• Alea56 US · 18 E&W
• Aleiah44 US
• Elea27 US · 13 E&W
• Aleeah18 US

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

If you like Aleah

Girls

• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Lila#186“lilac”^*
• Lylah#584Editor’s note Up from #629 in 2015 to #584 in 2025 in the US
• Laila#413“night”^*
• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Mohamed#527Variant of Muhammad, meaning “praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Ahmed#703Variant of Ahmad, meaning “praiseworthy”^*
• Abdullah#763“servant of God”^*
• Hamza#541“lion”^*
• Nasir#486Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #486 vs #2,133 in 2025
• Ameer#980Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1969, with 14 babies

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 Aleah’s. Rank is US 2025.