Aliyah — #235 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Aliyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 47,811 babies named Aliyah between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aliyah currently holds the #235 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 2,301 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aliyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 20,162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Aliyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,971 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Aliyah in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aliyah 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 47,811 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.