Alliah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-lee-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Alliah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “high, exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Alliah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Alia; also a Hebrew word meaning ascent
“high, exalted”
Arabic aliya means high or exalted, from the same root as Ali; Hebrew aliyah means ascent.
Meaning borrowed from Alia. More on Wiktionary.
Is Alliah a girl's or a boy's name?
Alliah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alliah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Alliah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2001, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Alliah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Alliah in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 520 girls in the US were given Alliah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #578, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Alliah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,205 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,096 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,354 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,700 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,230 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,175 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,860 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,309 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,363 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,448 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,580 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,707 |
Names like Alliah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Zariah Azariah Amira Aliya Kaliyah Addison Sariyah Amina Amaya Hadassah Alaya
Other spellings of Alliah
Names related to Alliah
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, “Alliah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alliah, updated 20 October 2026.