How Many People Are Named Aaliyah?
people named Aaliyah are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 3,130 people in the US has this name
Based on 110,077 babies named Aaliyah in Social Security records from 1976 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
⭐ Uncommon
Peak Year
5,530 births
Trend
Declining (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Feminine form of AALI. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by the singer Aaliyah Haughton (1979-2001), who was known simply as Aaliyah.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Aaliyah in English. Counting Aaliyah and these spellings together, about 129,610 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Aaliyah (99.9%) were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Aaliyah alive today is about 14 years old, and 97% are under 30. Half of them were between 8 and 20 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Aaliyah first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 2012, to 5,530 babies. In 2025, 2,607 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been falling.
Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Aaliyah never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #36, in 2012, and it was in the top 100 for 24 years, 2001 to 2024. In 2025 it ranked #101.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #101 |
| Best rank | #36 (2012) |
| Years in the top 100 | 24 (2001 to 2024) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #45 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Aaliyah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Aaliyah were born in California than in any other state: about 14,718 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Aaliyah was given 2.4 times as often in New Mexico, 1.9 times in Mississippi and 1.7 times in District of Columbia.
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