Aalaiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LYE-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Aalaiyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Aalaiyah come from?
Modern: spelling of Alaiya; modern spelling, probably related to Alaia or Aaliyah
Meaning borrowed from Alaiya.
Is Aalaiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aalaiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aalaiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Aalaiyah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Aalaiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,943 girls in the US were given Aalaiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #110, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Aalaiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
Names like Aalaiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Alaiyah Aziyah Zaniyah Zaliyah Aaliyah Kaliyah Naziyah Jaziyah Zalayah Hadassah Jaliyah Kamiyah
Other spellings of Aalaiyah
Names related to Aalaiyah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Aalaiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aalaiyah, updated 20 October 2026.