Aliyan — #8056 US boys' name
136 babies named Aliyan in U.S. Social Security records since 2003, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 43% of names given to boys today.
52% of everyone ever named Aliyan was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Aliyan in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Aliyan
The Social Security Administration has registered 136 babies named Aliyan between 2003 and 2024, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Aliyan currently holds the #8056 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Aliyan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 11 additional births since 2002.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Aliyan performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 71 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Aliyan shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Aliyan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Aliyan 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 136 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.
Aliyan at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Aliyan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2003
- Peak year (2023)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
Currently ranks #8056 among boys.
136 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 19 births in a single year.
Aliyan popularity over time — girls
11 total births recorded since 2002 (Aliyan as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Aliyan accounts for 7% of total recorded use across both genders.
Aliyan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 71 births that decade — 52% of Aliyan's all-time total
Aliyan decade highlights
- Peak decade 71 births
- Runner-up 58 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Aliyan's strongest decade
71 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 52% of all-time use.
Aliyan by state
Where Aliyan concentrates geographically — total births since 2003
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 3.7% |
5 of 136 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2003–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.