Ahliyah — girls' name
283 babies named Ahliyah in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2013. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
43% of everyone ever named Ahliyah was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Ahliyah in 2013 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Ahliyah
The Social Security Administration has registered 283 babies named Ahliyah between 1994 and 2023, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ahliyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Ahliyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 121 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ahliyah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ahliyah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Ahliyah 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 283 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.
Ahliyah at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Ahliyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1994
- Peak year (2013)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 30 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
283 total births across 30 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2013 with 22 births in a single year.
Ahliyah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 121 births that decade — 43% of Ahliyah's all-time total
Ahliyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 121 births
- Runner-up 85 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Ahliyah's strongest decade
121 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Ahliyah by state
Where Ahliyah concentrates geographically — total births since 1994
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.8% |
5 of 283 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.8% 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, 1994–2023 (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.