Aleyah — #1902 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Aleyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,686 babies named Aleyah between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aleyah currently holds the #1902 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 135 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aleyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,071 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Aleyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 330 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Aleyah in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aleyah 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 2,686 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.