Aalijah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- a-LY-ja
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Aalijah is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “my God is Yahweh”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Aalijah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Alijah, itself a spelling of Elijah
“my God is Yahweh”
A respelling of Elijah, the Hebrew prophet who in the Bible is carried up to heaven in a whirlwind.
Meaning borrowed from Alijah. More on Wiktionary.
Is Aalijah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aalijah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aalijah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,239among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 41% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Aalijah, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had fewer boys named Aalijah than any year since 2006.
Half of all the boys named Aalijah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 660 boys in the US were given Aalijah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #472, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
- Alijah 651
- Aalijah 9
Aalijah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,441 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,476 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,152 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,285 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,534 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,021 |
| 2012 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,429 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,737 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,762 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,220 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,530 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,708 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
Names like Aalijah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abdullah Asaiah Musa Azaiah Zamir Muhammad Ibrahim Zahir Abdallah Zayd Hamza Azariah
Other spellings of Aalijah
Names related to Aalijah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
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, “Aalijah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aalijah, updated 20 October 2026.