Alliyah
Alliyah was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,339 among girls’ names; 3,013 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,980 Americans named Alliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Alliyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Alliyah is “a female given name from Hebrew borrowed from Arabic; a variant of the name Aliyah or Aaliyah.”
/ɑˈlijə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Alliyah?
#6,339 among girls’ names, 2025
Alliyah fell from #2,738 in 2015 to #6,339 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 11.2 per million.
173 babies in 2002, the peak
Alliyah peaked in 2002, when 173 girls were given it, #1,184 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,339 | 11.2 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,266 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,942 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,800 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,093 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,649 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,916 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,460 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,700 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,285 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,738 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 72 | #2,497 | 40.3 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,153 | 49.6 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,760 | 66.4 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,819 | 63.1 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,795 | 64.1 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,695 | 71.3 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,635 | 73.0 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,895 | 56.7 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,772 | 61.5 |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,689 | 63.3 |
| 2004 | 154 | #1,362 | 83.9 |
| 2003 | 137 | #1,439 | 75.0 |
| 2002 | 173 | #1,184 | 96.3 |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,257 | 86.6 |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,334 | 77.6 |
| 1999 | 152 | #1,236 | 85.7 |
| 1998 | 138 | #1,293 | 78.1 |
| 1997 | 153 | #1,185 | 87.9 |
| 1996 | 120 | #1,387 | 68.5 |
| 1995 | 147 | #1,166 | 83.6 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,604 | 52.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alliyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alliyah, and how old are they?
2,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,013 Americans ever recorded as Alliyah. The median Alliyah alive today is 22 years old; half are between 16 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,495 people named Alliyah (2,490 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,871 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 | 355 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 491 |
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 Alliyah born?
The states with the most babies named Alliyah are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 250 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 229 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 177 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 158 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 126 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 123 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 84 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 70 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 50 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Alliyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Alliyah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1994 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 Alliyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 197,236 babies since 1880, Alliyah is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 5,554 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Alliyah
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 Alliyah and names like it
- Compare Alliyah and AaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlliyah peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alliyah since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Alliyah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Alliyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alliyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.