Iliyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ih-LEE-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Iliyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Iliyah come from?
Modern: modern variant, perhaps of Aaliyah
Is Iliyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Iliyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Iliyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Iliyah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Iliyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Iliyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 14 | #7,985 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,802 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,088 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,294 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,738 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Iliyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Aaliyah, Kaliyah, Zaliyah, Jaliyah, Aziyah, Kamiyah, Naziyah, Hadassah, Jaziyah, Zamiyah, Samiyah
Names related to Iliyah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Iliyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/iliyah, updated 20 October 2026.