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Girl's name · #263 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
Aliyah's best rank, #133, came in 2011; it has settled back to #263 today. Roughly 49,000 girls have been named Aliyah since 1971.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 45 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#120 in France (2025) · #210 in Belgium (2025) · #225 in Canada (2025) · #271 in Sweden (2025) · #284 in Scotland (2025) · #293 in Netherlands (2025) · #310 in New Zealand (2025) · #345 in England & Wales (2025) · #363 in Austria (2025) · #389 in Switzerland (2025) · #589 in Poland (2025) · #608 in Ireland (2025) and 5 more.
Among 48 notable people named Aliyah:
Sports figures appear 2.98× more often than among typical names — e.g. Aliyah, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1994).
Together with its spelling variants Aaliyah (#101), Alia (#587), and Aliya (#823), Aliyah would rank around #48 with about 4,600 births last year — the newborns split about 56/26/11/7 across Aaliyah, Aliyah, Alia, and Aliya.
Similar names: Aaliyah · Laila · Halle · Cali · Zuri · Alia
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