Girls' name · since 1987
Alleah
Alleah has 420 recorded births since 1987 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2012 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #13,118 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 420
- born since 1987
- 2000s
- peak decade
Alleah is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 420 have been recorded since 1987.
Alleah has 420 recorded births among girls since 1987, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1987 to 2023.
- #13,118 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 420 born since 1987
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Alleah ranks #13,118 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 420 born since 1987, peaking in the 2000s.
- #13,118 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 420
- born since 1987
- 2000s
- peak decade
Alleah's 420 recorded births place it above 81.83% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Alleah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Alleah's SSA record in two at 2007 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1992, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2012 peak of 32, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Alleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1987–2023
- Peak year (2012)
- 32
- Annual births at peak, across 37 years of records
Alleah by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (149 births, 35% of the file).
2000s was Alleah's strongest decade.
149 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 35% of all-time use.
Alleah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
88 births
- 2000s
2000s
149 births
- 2010s
2010s
148 births
- 2020s 29
2020s
29 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 149 births (35% of all-time use).
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- Alleah's decade-level peak was the 2000s (149 total births); usage has since declined to 29 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Alleah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2012)
Similar record span (~36 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1987–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Alleah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.