Aleiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LEE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,171 for girls
Aleiya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high; exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 4,171st for girls in the US (34 babies).
What does Aleiya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Aleiyah, itself a variant of Aaliyah
“high; exalted”
Meaning borrowed from Aleiyah.
Is Aleiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Aleiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aleiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,171st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 34 about 1 in 47,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 1% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 34 girls in the US were named Aleiya, making it the 4,171st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,004th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had more girls named Aleiya than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Aleiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 59 girls in the US were given Aleiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,353, up from #4,171 for this spelling alone.
- Aleiya 34
- Aleiyah 25
Aleiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,171 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,790 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,233 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,004 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,034 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,779 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,386 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
Names like Aleiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Amira, Safa, Aliya, Zahara, Safiya, Abeeha, Zaniyah, Zainab, Alaya, Hadassah, Sariyah
Other spellings of Aleiya
Names related to Aleiya
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, “Aleiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aleiya, updated 20 October 2026.