How rare is the name Aaliyah?

69,241 people in the United States have the first name Aaliyah, about 1 in 4,362. It ranks #737 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

AALIYAH

#737

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
69,241
About
1 in 4,362
This common or more
65.3%
Who bears it

Of the 69,241 people named Aaliyah, 39.5% reported their origin as Black, 31.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 13.7% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Aaliyah peaked in 2012, when 5,530 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19762025
Peak year
2012
Births that year
5,530
In 2025*
2,607 ▼53%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 110,077 babies have been given the name since 1976. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Aaliyah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #137. The largest share of babies named Aaliyah, 50.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#6,653142
1980s#6,202209
1990s#6887,850
2000s#20536,424
2010s#13746,781
2020s#20218,671
Generation X 1965–800.2%
Millennials 1981–963.4%
Generation Z 1997–1250.9%
2013 and later45.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Aaliyah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aaliyah has been most common in Nevada (3.1×), New Mexico (2.1×), and Florida (2.1×), and least common in Vermont (0.34×).

109,285 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Aaliyah

#735 Ali · 69,302#736 Carolina · 69,296#738 Meredith · 69,215#739 Edna · 68,962

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Aaliyah, most common first.

#10,391 Aaliya · 1,289#12,987 Aaleyah · 941#13,355 Aalyah · 907#13,803 Aaliah · 867#15,357 Aalyiah · 751#15,379 Aalayah · 749#17,356 Aalia · 637#24,534 Aaliyha · 392

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