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Alliyah

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#6,324 for girls

Alliyah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

What does Alliyah mean?

Hebrew

A female given name from Hebrew borrowed from Arabic; a variant of the name Aliyah or Aaliyah.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Alliyah a girl's or a boy's name?

Alliyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Alliyah in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 20 girls.

Half of all the girls named Alliyah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2009. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 20 in 20042024
Alliyah in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20243#5,966
20230–
20220–
20210–
20204#4,744
20190–
20183#5,896
20175#4,250
20160–
20155#4,294
20143#5,920
20135#4,267
201212#2,319
201114#2,032
20104#4,931
200911#2,298
200812#2,156
200710#2,354
200612#1,987
200513#1,807
200420#1,238
200315#1,492
200218#1,225
200115#1,398
200013#1,502
19996#2,559
19989#1,951
199716#1,278
19965#2,815

How popular is Alliyah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,324among girls
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 43% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Alliyah, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,646th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 173 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Alliyah in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 4,461 girls in the US were given Alliyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #60, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.

1994Busiest: 173 in 20022025
Alliyah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
202415#7,247
202316#6,917
202221#5,790
202125#5,087
202028#4,646
201927#4,908
201831#4,457
201741#3,696
201649#3,280
201564#2,736
201472#2,497
201387#2,152
2012117#1,760
2011111#1,817
2010114#1,794
2009131#1,695
2008138#1,635
2007109#1,894
2006117#1,771
2005117#1,689
2004154#1,362
2003137#1,438
2002173#1,184
2001156#1,256
2000141#1,333
1999152#1,236
1998138#1,293
1997153#1,185
1996120#1,387
1995147#1,166
199494#1,603

Names like Alliyah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Alliyah

Names related to Alliyah

More Hebrew names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Alliyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alliyah, updated 20 October 2026.