Aliayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-lee-AH-yuh
- Origin
- Arabic
Aliayah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Aliayah mean?
Arabic: variant spelling of Aaliyah
“high, exalted”
Is Aliayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aliayah is a girls' name.
How popular is Aliayah in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Aliayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aliayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,099 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
Nicknames for Aliayah
Names like Aliayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zaniyah, Safa, Zainab, Aliya, Samiyah, Aziyah, Hadassah, Fatoumata, Kaliyah, Safiya, Zakiyah
Names related to Aliayah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Aliayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aliayah, updated 20 October 2026.