Aaliah
Aaliah was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,105 among girls’ names; 1,039 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Aaliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aaliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aaliah?
#10,105 among girls’ names, 2025
Aaliah fell from #3,429 in 2015 to #10,105 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 5.6 per million.
69 babies in 2009, the peak
Aaliah peaked in 2009, when 69 girls were given it, #2,642 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,105 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,676 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,627 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,411 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,007 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,383 | 18.5 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,423 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,429 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,001 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,776 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,313 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,014 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,670 | 37.7 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,642 | 37.6 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,583 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,750 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,504 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,313 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,387 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,105 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,010 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,860 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,644 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,890 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,068 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,414 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,036 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,978 | 8.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aaliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aaliah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aaliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aaliah, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,039 Americans ever recorded as Aaliah. The median Aaliah alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 867 people named Aaliah (864 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 669 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 326 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aaliah born?
The states with the most babies named Aaliah are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 177 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 114 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Aaliah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aaliah is most over-represented in California: since 1994 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aaliah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Aaliah?
Aaliah is a less common spelling of Aaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,039 Aaliah and 110,077 Aaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 201,966 babies since 1880, Aaliah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 4,949 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aaliah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aaliah and names like it
- Compare Aaliah and AaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAaliah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aaliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Aaliah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aaliah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.