Alijah — #430 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Alijah

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,567 babies named Alijah between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alijah currently holds the #430 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 762 babies received it in a single year. Alijah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,435 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Alijah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,863 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Alijah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,554 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Alijah in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Alijah 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 13,567 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.