Aleiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LEE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,098 for girls
Aleiyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high; exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 5,098th for girls in the US (25 babies).
What does Aleiyah mean?
Arabic: variant of Aaliyah
“high; exalted”
Is Aleiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aleiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 25 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aleiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,098th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 25 about 1 in 64,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 25 girls in the US were named Aleiyah, making it the 5,098th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,546th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Aleiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 59 girls in the US were given Aleiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,353, up from #5,098 for this spelling alone.
- Aleiya 34
- Aleiyah 25
Aleiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,098 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,544 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,462 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,546 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,071 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,450 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,890 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,294 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,205 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,548 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,523 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,737 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,580 |
Names like Aleiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zaniyah, Hadassah, Aziyah, Safa, Samiyah, Kaliyah, Zainab, Zaliyah, Amira, Aliya, Safiya
Other spellings of Aleiyah
Names related to Aleiyah
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, “Aleiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aleiyah, updated 20 October 2026.