Aalijah
Aalijah was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,243 among boys’ names; 453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aalijah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aalijah?
#8,243 among boys’ names, 2025
Aalijah fell from #5,286 in 2015 to #8,243 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 5.3 per million.
33 babies in 2014, the peak
Aalijah peaked in 2014, when 33 babies were given it (21 boys, #4,534 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 9 | #8,243 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 11 | #7,254 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #7,734 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 17 | #5,441 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 11 | #7,085 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,498 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 22 | #4,476 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,462 | 19 | #4,916 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 | 11 | #7,092 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,777 | 11 | #7,154 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #8,928 | 17 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,964 | 21 | #4,534 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 | 11 | #7,022 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,479 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,342 | 16 | #5,430 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 15 | #5,737 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,703 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,502 | 15 | #5,762 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 | 10 | #7,588 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,167 | 5 | #12,050 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 12 | #6,220 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,174 | 9 | #7,532 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,840 | 10 | #6,710 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,242 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,097 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,383 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,426 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aalijah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 453 Americans recorded as Aalijah, 33% are girls and 67% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aalijah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aalijah, and how old are they?
An estimated 449 Americans named Aalijah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 310 people named Aalijah (130 women and girls, 180 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 385 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Aalijah?
Aalijah is a less common spelling of Alijah: SSA has recorded 453 Aalijah and 15,681 Alijah since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 16,840 babies since 1880, Aalijah is the second most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 692 babies (1.3%), again the second 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 Aalijah
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 Aalijah and names like it
- Compare Aalijah and AlijahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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