Aaliya
Aaliya was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,388 among girls’ names; 1,571 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,560 Americans named Aaliya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aaliya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aaliya?
#3,388 among girls’ names, 2025
Aaliya fell from #2,736 in 2015 to #3,388 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 28.0 per million.
85 babies in 2010, the peak
Aaliya peaked in 2010, when 85 girls were given it, #2,258 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,388 | 28.0 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,119 | 31.5 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,274 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,593 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,959 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,546 | 26.0 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,387 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,157 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,964 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,934 | 32.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,736 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,323 | 44.2 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,187 | 48.4 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,356 | 44.9 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,637 | 38.1 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,258 | 47.8 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,671 | 37.0 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,922 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,125 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,563 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,823 | 31.4 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,029 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,343 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,237 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,087 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,881 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,951 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,004 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,127 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,014 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,682 | 11.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,791 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aaliya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aaliya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aaliya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aaliya, and how old are they?
1,560 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,571 Americans ever recorded as Aaliya. The median Aaliya alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,289 people named Aaliya (1,288 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,286 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 54 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 785 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 719 |
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 Aaliya born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,386 | 0.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,488 | 0.8× |
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 Aaliya 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 Aaliya?
Aaliya is a less common spelling of Aaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,571 Aaliya and 110,077 Aaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 203,066 babies since 1880, Aaliya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 5,864 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Aaliya
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 Aaliya and names like it
- Compare Aaliya and AaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAaliya peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aaliya since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Aaliya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aaliya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.