Aleeyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LAY-a
- US rank, 2025
- #4,986 for girls
Aleeyah is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,986th for girls in the US (26 babies).
Where does Aleeyah come from?
Spelling of Aleyah; root uncertain
Meaning borrowed from Aleyah.
Is Aleeyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aleeyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 26 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aleeyah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aleeyah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aleeyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 1 | #7,326 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 8 | #2,320 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
How popular is Aleeyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,986among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 26about 1 in 62,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 26 girls in the US were named Aleeyah, making it the 4,986th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,777th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 111 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had fewer girls named Aleeyah than any year since 2003.
Half of all the girls named Aleeyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,282 girls in the US were given Aleeyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #155, up from #4,986 for this spelling alone.
Aleeyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,986 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,113 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,361 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,763 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,011 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,777 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,084 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,961 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,014 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,798 |
| 2015 | 72 | #2,501 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,213 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,849 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,823 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,982 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,691 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,704 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,922 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,600 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,072 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,025 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,168 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,414 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,591 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,627 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,803 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,033 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,727 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,656 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,094 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,244 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
Names like Aleeyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Ayah Safa Zainab Sumayyah Amira Nusaybah Ruqayyah Aaminah Abeeha Hafsa Aafiyah
Other spellings of Aleeyah
Alaya Alayah Aleia Aleyah Aleya Aalayah Aleiah Aaleyah Aalaya Allayah Aleeya
Names related to Aleeyah
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Aleeyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aleeyah, updated 20 October 2026.