Alijah
Alijah is ranked 430th among boys in 2024 (734 births). Its best rank was 407th, in 2021.
- Rank in 2024
- #430up 13 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7340.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 2021762 births
- Best rank
- #407in 2021
- Since 1987
- 15,002people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,567 boys have been named Alijah in the United States since 1987, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 762 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 43%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,435 girls have also been given it, 9.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2021, its biggest year
Alijah was the 407th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Alijah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Demaripeak 2021
- Camaripeak 2022
- Reefpeak 2021
- Jaziahpeak 2020
- Gianlucapeak 2017
- Jetpeak 2019
- Ahmaripeak 2022
- Joahpeak 2023
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.