Alyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-LEE-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #2,895 for girls
Alyah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “exalted, high”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 2,895th for girls in the US (58 babies).
What does Alyah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Aliyah
“exalted, high”
Aliyah is the feminine of Arabic Ali, 'exalted'; in Hebrew aliyah means 'ascent', also the word for moving to Israel.
Is Alyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Alyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 58 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alyah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Alyah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2011, with 5 girls.
In 2025, 571 girls in the UK were given Alyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #109, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Alyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 1 | #7,682 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
How popular is Alyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,895th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 58 about 1 in 28,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 47% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 58 girls in the US were named Alyah, making it the 2,895th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,450th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 65 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Alyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,461 girls in the US were given Alyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #60, up from #2,895 for this spelling alone.
Alyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,895 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,661 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,091 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,312 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,734 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,450 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,161 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,613 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,847 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,631 |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,346 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,583 |
| 2013 | 50 | #3,217 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,039 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,172 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,975 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,751 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,315 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,992 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,915 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,783 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,176 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,882 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,639 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,596 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,668 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,506 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,363 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,544 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,301 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,094 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
Names like Alyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Safa, Sumayyah, Zainab, Ruqayyah, Nusaybah, Aaminah, Amira, Hafsa, Abeeha, Aafiyah, Hiba
Other spellings of Alyah
Aaliyah, Aliyah, Alea, Aliah, Aleah, Aleigha, Aleeah, Alliyah, Aleea
Names related to Alyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Alyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alyah, updated 20 October 2026.