Aaliyah
Aaliyah is ranked 93rd among girls in 2024 (2,703 births). Its best rank was 36th, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- #93down 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,7030.17% of girls
- Peak year
- 20125,522 births
- Best rank
- #36in 2012
- Since 1976
- 107,314people given the name
The story in the numbers
107,314 girls have been named Aaliyah in the United States since 1976, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5,522 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 45 → 93).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 44%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 24 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Aaliyah was the 36th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2012 were Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Aaliyah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aliyahpeak 2011
- Dayannapeak 2009
- Aaliyapeak 2010
- Emmepeak 2009
- Dariannapeak 2013
- Skyleepeak 2013
- Skylapeak 2012
- Madelynnpeak 2009
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.