Aalyiah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-LEE-uh
- Origin
- Arabic
Aalyiah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “exalted, high”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Aalyiah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Alyiah, itself a variant of Aaliyah
“exalted, high”
A variant of Aaliyah, from Arabic aliya 'high, exalted'; Hebrew aliyah, 'ascent', is a near-identical word.
Meaning borrowed from Alyiah.
Is Aalyiah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aalyiah is a girls' name.
How popular is Aalyiah in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 52 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Aalyiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aalyiah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,651 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,776 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,541 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,643 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,172 |
| 2010 | 47 | #3,408 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,560 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,709 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,847 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,853 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,872 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,488 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,216 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,390 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,781 |
| 2000 | 23 | #4,976 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,794 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,656 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,125 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,091 |
Names like Aalyiah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Zaniyah Hadassah Safa Aliya Zainab Samiyah Kaliyah Aziyah Safiya Amira Jaliyah
Names related to Aalyiah
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, “Aalyiah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aalyiah, updated 20 October 2026.