Aleyah
Aleyah was given to 119 girls in 2025, #1,710 among girls’ names; 2,805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,780 Americans named Aleyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aleyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aleyah?
#1,710 among girls’ names, 2025
Aleyah rose from #1,895 in 2015 to #1,710 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 59.9 to 74.0 per million.
135 babies in 2012, the peak
Aleyah peaked in 2012, when 135 girls were given it, #1,603 among girls’ names. The 119 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,710 | 74.0 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,896 | 64.8 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,738 | 73.5 |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,649 | 78.0 |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,622 | 78.6 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,792 | 68.0 |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,668 | 75.1 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,561 | 40.0 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,018 | 56.2 |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,169 | 50.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,895 | 59.9 |
| 2014 | 115 | #1,782 | 64.4 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,776 | 65.5 |
| 2012 | 135 | #1,603 | 76.7 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,728 | 67.6 |
| 2010 | 100 | #1,992 | 56.3 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,877 | 61.0 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,977 | 56.1 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,035 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,459 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,549 | 36.3 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,994 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,920 | 28.5 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,412 | 36.7 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,537 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 54 | #2,706 | 29.7 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,810 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,691 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,510 | 29.3 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,089 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,020 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,460 | 28.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,210 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aleyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aleyah 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 Aleyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aleyah, and how old are they?
2,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,805 Americans ever recorded as Aleyah. The median Aleyah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,693 people named Aleyah (1,691 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,107 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 | 130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,420 |
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 Aleyah born?
The states with the most babies named Aleyah are Texas, California and Florida, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,155 | 1.2× |
| California | 15 | #1,495 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,331 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,083 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,420 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,402 | 0.1× |
Where Aleyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aleyah is most over-represented in Texas: since 1991 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Aleyah 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 Aleyah?
Aleyah is a less common spelling of Alaia: SSA has recorded 2,805 Aleyah and 17,699 Alaia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 230,625 babies since 1880, Aleyah is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 119 of their 8,423 babies (1.4%), again the eighth most given.
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 Aleyah
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 Aleyah and names like it
- Compare Aleyah and AlaiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAleyah peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aleyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Aleyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aleyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.