Aleeyah
Aleeyah was given to 26 girls in 2025, #4,989 among girls’ names; 1,517 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Aleeyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleeyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aleeyah?
#4,989 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleeyah fell from #2,503 in 2015 to #4,989 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 40.3 to 16.2 per million.
111 babies in 2012, the peak
Aleeyah peaked in 2012, when 111 girls were given it, #1,823 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,989 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,117 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,367 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,767 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,019 | 21.9 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,781 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,087 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,962 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,015 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,800 | 34.4 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,503 | 40.3 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,214 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,849 | 62.1 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,823 | 63.0 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,983 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,695 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,704 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,925 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,602 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,074 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,027 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,173 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,422 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,592 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,630 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,806 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,036 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,730 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,658 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,281 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,095 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,255 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,616 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleeyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleeyah 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 Aleeyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleeyah, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,517 Americans ever recorded as Aleeyah. The median Aleeyah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,044 people named Aleeyah (1,041 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 67 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 747 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 691 |
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 Aleeyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,783 | 0.7× |
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 Aleeyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 89,452 babies since 1880, Aleeyah is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 2,608 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 Aleeyah
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 Aleeyah and names like it
- Compare Aleeyah and AliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAleeyah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleeyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Aleeyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aleeyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.