How rare is the name Aliya?

9,253 people in the United States have the first name Aliya, about 1 in 32,641. It ranks #2,596 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ALIYA

#2,596

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,253
About
1 in 32,641
This common or more
80.3%
Who bears it

Of the 9,253 people named Aliya, 32.1% reported their origin as White, 22.1% as Black and 17% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Aliya peaked in 2012, when 483 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19712025
Peak year
2012
Births that year
483
In 2025*
330 ▼32%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,075 babies have been given the name since 1971. 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.

Aliya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,310. The largest share of babies named Aliya, 51.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#4,571257
1980s#4,015391
1990s#2,4591,151
2000s#1,3103,764
2010s#1,4683,550
2020s#1,5941,962
Generation X 1965–802.7%
Millennials 1981–968.4%
Generation Z 1997–1251.4%
2013 and later37.4%

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 Aliya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Aliya has been most common in Washington (2.1×), Utah (2×), and Florida (1.9×), and least common in Louisiana (0.27×).

9,104 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 Aliya

#2,594 Judi · 9,259#2,595 Leyla · 9,255#2,597 Jewell · 9,252#2,598 Mandi · 9,243

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,169 Aliyah · 33,713#2,125 Alia · 12,618#3,815 Alaya · 5,173#8,510 Aleya · 1,702#9,249 Alya · 1,517#13,289 Alaiya · 913#31,246 Aliea · 275#31,775 Alliya · 268

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