Alyjah — #7014 US boys' name
333 babies named Alyjah in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2010. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 51% of names given to boys today.
39% of everyone ever named Alyjah was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Alyjah in 2010 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Alyjah
The Social Security Administration has registered 333 babies named Alyjah between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Alyjah currently holds the #7014 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Alyjah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 50 additional births since 1998.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Alyjah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 130 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Alyjah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Alyjah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Alyjah 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 333 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.
Alyjah at a glance
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Current rank
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Alyjah popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1997
- Peak year (2010)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
Currently ranks #7014 among boys.
333 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2010 with 21 births in a single year.
Alyjah popularity over time — girls
50 total births recorded since 1998 (Alyjah as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Alyjah accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Alyjah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 130 births that decade — 39% of Alyjah's all-time total
Alyjah decade highlights
- Peak decade 130 births
- Runner-up 121 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Alyjah's strongest decade
130 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Alyjah by state
Where Alyjah concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.5% |
5 of 333 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.5% 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, 1997–2024 (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.