Alilah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-LY-luh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Alilah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
Where does Alilah come from?
Modern: modern name, perhaps a blend of Ali and Lilah
Is Alilah a girl's or a boy's name?
Alilah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alilah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Alilah, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Alilah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 61 girls in the US were given Alilah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,301, up from #5,409 for this spelling alone.
Alilah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,960 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,165 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
Nicknames for Alilah
Names like Alilah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aziyah Zaniyah Zaliyah Alaiyah Hadassah Aaliyah Azylah Nusaybah Amoura Kaliyah Kamiyah Zalayah
Other spellings of Alilah
Names related to Alilah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
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, “Alilah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alilah, updated 20 October 2026.