Alyia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-LEE-uh
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Alyia is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “exalted, high”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Alyia mean?
Arabic: spelling of Alyiah, itself a variant of Aaliyah
“exalted, high”
A variant of Aaliyah, from Arabic aliya 'high, exalted'; Hebrew aliyah, 'ascent', is a near-identical word.
Meaning borrowed from Alyiah.
Is Alyia a girl's or a boy's name?
Alyia 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 Alyia 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 Alyia, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2000, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.
Half of all the girls named Alyia in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alyia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,892 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,535 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,431 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,684 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,109 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,880 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,377 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,683 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,803 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,830 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,951 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,006 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,766 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,252 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,598 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
Names like Alyia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Aliya Amira Safa Zahara Safiya Samira Salma Zainab Alaya Amaya Zaniyah
Names related to Alyia
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, “Alyia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/alyia, updated 20 October 2026.