Aaleah — #12665 US girls' name
345 babies named Aaleah in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 28% of names given to girls today.
56% of everyone ever named Aaleah was born in this single decade.
37 babies were named Aaleah in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aaleah
The Social Security Administration has registered 345 babies named Aaleah between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aaleah currently holds the #12665 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 37 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aaleah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 194 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Aaleah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aaleah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aaleah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 345 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Aaleah at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Aaleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1997
- Peak year (2012)
- 37
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
Currently ranks #12665 among girls.
345 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 37 births in a single year.
Aaleah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 194 births that decade — 56% of Aaleah's all-time total
Aaleah decade highlights
- Peak decade 194 births
- Runner-up 93 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Aaleah's strongest decade
194 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 56% of all-time use.
Aaleah by state
Where Aaleah concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 15 | 4.3% |
15 of 345 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 4.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 4.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.