Alyiah
Alyiah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,295 among girls’ names; 1,040 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Alyiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alyiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alyiah?
#13,295 among girls’ names, 2025
Alyiah fell from #4,590 in 2015 to #13,295 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 3.7 per million.
64 babies in 2009, the peak
Alyiah peaked in 2009, when 64 girls were given it, #2,779 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,295 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,969 | 6.8 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,565 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,270 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,092 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,038 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,774 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,666 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,136 | 14.7 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,590 | 16.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 29 | #4,774 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,245 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,770 | 35.8 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,267 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,755 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,779 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,320 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,862 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,319 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,365 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,179 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,660 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,889 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,548 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,883 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,225 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,800 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,547 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,311 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,678 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,017 | 10.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alyiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alyiah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alyiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alyiah, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,040 Americans ever recorded as Alyiah. The median Alyiah alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,021 people named Alyiah (1,020 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 974 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 721 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 246 |
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).
How common is the spelling Alyiah?
Alyiah is a less common spelling of Aaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,040 Alyiah and 110,077 Aaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 226,549 babies since 1880, Alyiah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 7,838 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Alyiah
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 Alyiah and names like it
- Compare Alyiah and AaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAlyiah peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alyiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Alyiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Alyiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
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