Aliyyah

Girl · recorded 1987–2020

  • 2020last recorded
  • 1997best year

Most popular in 1997.

Last recorded in 2020. Fewer than five girls a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Aliyyah.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1987

051019871995200420122020

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 27 recorded years as a table
Aliyyah, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19874
19884
19894
19904
19914
19925
19948
19956
19967
199710
19984
19997
20004
20024
20046
20054
20064
20076
20083
20094
20103
20117
20133
20163
20173
20194
20203

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Aliyyah isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2020
5
Rank in 2020
#15,088
How rare
1 in 323,309 girls
Since 1987
234

Aliyyah was last recorded in 2020. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1997, at 10 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Aliyyah doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.