Ahlia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-lee-ah
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Ahlia is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Ahlia come from?
Arabic: probably a variant of Aliyah
Is Ahlia a girl's or a boy's name?
Ahlia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ahlia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Ahlia, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.
Half of all the girls named Ahlia in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ahlia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
Names like Ahlia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Amira, Aliya, Safa, Zahara, Safiya, Safia, Alaya, Abeeha, Zaniyah, Zainab, Samira
Names related to Ahlia
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, “Ahlia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ahlia, updated 20 October 2026.