Girls' name · since 2012
Aiylah
Aiylah has 102 recorded births since 2012 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #26,857 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,859 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 102
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
102 babies have been named Aiylah since 2012, making it today's #12859 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aiylah has been recorded 102 times among girls since 2012, currently ranked #12859 nationally and more common than 26% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2025.
- #26,857 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,859 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 102 born since 2012
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aiylah ranks #26,857 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,859 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 102 born since 2012, peaking in the 2020s.
- #26,857 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,859 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 102
- born since 2012
- 2020s
- peak decade
Aiylah's 102 recorded births place it above 62.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Aiylah compares
102 25th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Aiylah's all-time total is 73% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Aiylah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 102 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Aiylah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Aiylah's full recorded timeline at 2020, 64% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 36% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2012, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 15 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Aiylah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 14 years of records
Aiylah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (65 births, 64% of the file).
2020s was Aiylah's strongest decade.
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 64% of all-time use.
Aiylah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
37 births
- 2020s
2020s
65 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 65 births (64% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Aiylah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 2012–2025 (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 Aiylah 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.