Girls' name · since 2002
Aaliyiah
41 babies named Aaliyiah in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #37,139 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 41
- born since 2002
- 2010s
- peak decade
Aaliyiah is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 41 have been recorded since 2002.
Aaliyiah has 41 recorded births among girls since 2002, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2002 to 2016.
- #37,139 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 41 born since 2002
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aaliyiah ranks #37,139 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 41 born since 2002, peaking in the 2010s.
- #37,139 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 41
- born since 2002
- 2010s
- peak decade
Aaliyiah's 41 recorded births place it above 48.26% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Aaliyiah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Aaliyiah's full recorded timeline at 2010, 61% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 39% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2002, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2011 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Aaliyiah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2002–2016
- Peak year (2011)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Aaliyiah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (25 births, 61% of the file).
2010s was Aaliyiah's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 61% of all-time use.
Aaliyiah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
16 births
- 2010s
2010s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 25 births (61% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Aaliyiah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2011)
Similar record span (~14 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2002–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aaliyiah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.