Alyiah
Girl · uh-LEE-uh · Arabic
Alyiah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “exalted, high”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Alyiah mean?
Arabic: variant of Aaliyah
“exalted, high”
A variant of Aaliyah, from Arabic aliya 'high, exalted'; Hebrew aliyah, 'ascent', is a near-identical word.
- Say it
- uh-LEE-uh
Is Alyiah a girl's or a boy's name?
Alyiah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Alyiah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 73% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Alyiah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 64 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Alyiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Alyiah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,766 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,657 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,583 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,241 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,769 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,266 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,751 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,778 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,315 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,858 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,315 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,362 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,176 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,651 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,884 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,545 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,881 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,213 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,793 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,544 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,301 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,672 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,011 |
Names like Alyiah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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