Aaliayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-lee-AH-yuh
- Origin
- Arabic
Aaliayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Aaliayah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Aliayah, itself a variant spelling of Aaliyah
“high, exalted”
Meaning borrowed from Aliayah.
Is Aaliayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aaliayah is a girls' name.
How popular is Aaliayah in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Aaliayah in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aaliayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
Nicknames for Aaliayah
Names like Aaliayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Samiyah, Zaniyah, Zainab, Aziyah, Aliya, Zakiyah, Fatoumata, Farah, Safiya, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah
Names related to Aaliayah
Aaliyah, Alaiyah, Alaiah, Aalayah, Aaliya, Aaleyah, Aaliah, Aalyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Aaliayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aaliayah, updated 20 October 2026.