Alizah
Alizah was given to 87 girls in 2025, #2,139 among girls’ names; 1,469 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Alizah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alizah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alizah?
#2,139 among girls’ names, 2025
Alizah rose from #3,302 in 2015 to #2,139 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 27.4 to 54.1 per million.
96 babies in 2022, the peak
Alizah peaked in 2022, when 96 girls were given it, #2,021 among girls’ names. The 92 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 96% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #2,139 | 54.1 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,305 | 49.4 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,231 | 52.4 |
| 2022 | 96 | #2,021 | 58.5 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,186 | 51.8 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,782 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,632 | 39.3 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,929 | 32.9 |
| 2017 | 74 | #2,432 | 42.9 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,062 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,302 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,229 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,852 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,122 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,000 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,312 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,413 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,018 | 30.1 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,950 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,075 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,875 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,688 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,657 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,280 | 23.4 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,324 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,652 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,431 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,552 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,513 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,145 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,599 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,832 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,609 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,016 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alizah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alizah has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alizah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alizah, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,469 Americans ever recorded as Alizah. The median Alizah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 851 people named Alizah (814 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 980 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 39 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 539 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 879 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Alizah born?
The states with the most babies named Alizah are California, Texas and Ohio, with 75% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,580 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,716 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,278 | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | #922 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,043 | 0.3× |
Where Alizah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alizah is most over-represented in Texas: since 1990 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Alizah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Alizah?
Alizah is a less common spelling of Aliza: SSA has recorded 1,469 Alizah and 11,975 Aliza since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,294 babies since 1880, Alizah is the fourth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 777 babies (12%), the second most given that year.
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 Alizah
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 Alizah and names like it
- Compare Alizah and AlizaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlizah peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alizah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Alizah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alizah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.