Aailyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-LEE-yah
- Origin
- Arabic
Aailyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Aailyah mean?
Arabic: variant of Aaliyah, from Arabic aliya
“high, exalted”
Respelling of Aaliyah, the name made widely known by the R&B singer Aaliyah (1979–2001).
Is Aailyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aailyah is a girls' name.
How popular is Aailyah in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Aailyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aailyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,054 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Nicknames for Aailyah
- Liyah 6 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Aailyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zaniyah, Samiyah, Hadassah, Safa, Aziyah, Aliya, Zainab, Kaliyah, Safiya, Amira, Zahara
Names related to Aailyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aailyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aailyah, updated 20 October 2026.