Aalyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AL-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Aalyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Aalyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Alya; also a Russian pet form of names such as Alexandra
“high, exalted”
Meaning borrowed from Alya.
Is Aalyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aalyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aalyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Aalyah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Aalyah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Aalyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 175 girls in the US were given Aalyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,159, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
- Alya 167
- Aalyah 8
Aalyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,962 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,208 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,251 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,150 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,305 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,005 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,720 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,918 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,938 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,815 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,287 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,884 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,627 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,146 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,714 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,815 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,636 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,116 |
Names like Aalyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Safa Zainab Zaniyah Farah Hadassah Aliya Salma Samiyah Hafsa Kaliyah Aziyah
Other spellings of Aalyah
Names related to 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, “Aalyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aalyah, updated 20 October 2026.