Alieu
Alieu was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,212 among boys’ names; 236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alieu by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alieu?
#7,212 among boys’ names, 2025
Alieu entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,212 in 2025.
15 babies in 2013, the peak
Alieu peaked in 2013, when 15 boys were given it, #5,664 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,212 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,336 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,304 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,334 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,858 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,608 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,236 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,641 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,344 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,362 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #9,677 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,664 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,179 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,639 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,724 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,705 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,203 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,978 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,795 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,150 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,989 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,729 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,093 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,128 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,965 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,303 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alieu a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alieu has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alieu: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alieu, and how old are they?
An estimated 233 Americans named Alieu and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 458 people named Alieu (1 woman or girl, 457 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 181 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 45,453 babies since 1880, Alieu is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,196 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Alieu
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 Alieu and names like it
- Compare Alieu and AliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAlieu peaked in 2013.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Alieu.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alieu alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.