Aaleyah

#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births

Peak · girls
2015 · 155 births
Debut · girls
18 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,441
since 1994

Aaleyah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Aaleyah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001peak #1,477, 2015girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#5,72221
2024#5,96220
2023#5,39023
2022#4,29533
2021#3,67841
2020#3,06152
2019#3,00254
2018#2,36177
2017#2,03596
2016#1,929104
2015#1,477155
2014#1,892106
2013#1,761116
2012#2,07892
2011#2,43475
2010#2,47675
2009#3,25251
2008#4,64732
2007#4,21336
2006#6,35620
2005#6,52818
2004#6,76817
2003#7,99813
2002#6,39217
2001#10,1029
2000#8,53411
1999#10,3458
1998#6,71914
1997#5,41718
1996#7,57411
1995#9,5538
1994#5,24918
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five girls were named Aaleyah! It came in at #5,249, and was given to 18 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aaleyah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 240 spots since 2024 (#5,962#5,722)
  • 2,661 spots since 2020 (#3,061#5,722)
  • 4,245 spots since 2015 (#1,477#5,722)
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2015 at #1,477 (155 births)
  • Births halved by 2018, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 11,517
  • Highest: 1 in 11,517 girls born in 2015 were named Aaleyah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 65.9% of all girls named Aaleyah (950) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s77#5,249 (1994)#7,476
2000s224#3,252 (2009)#6,479
2010s950#1,477 (2015)#2,145
2020s190#3,061 (2020)#4,685

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Aaleyah in 2001

girls
#10,102
9 births · 1 in 200,069 girls

Top girls' names in 2001

  1. #1Emily25,059
  2. #2Madison22,166
  3. #3Hannah20,723
  4. #4Ashley16,531
  5. #5Alexis16,404
  6. #6Sarah15,929
  7. #7Samantha15,867
  8. #8Abigail14,807
  9. #9Elizabeth14,792
  10. #10Olivia13,977
  11. #10,102Aaleyah9
More about 2001

girls

1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 200,069 of them was named Aaleyah, which outranked 43.8% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aaleyah
  1. #9,351Zitlalli10
  2. #9,351Zlaty10
  3. #9,351Zyana10
  4. #10,102Aaleyah9
  5. #10,102Aailyah9
  6. #10,102Aalijah9
  7. #10,102Aamina9
  8. #11,020Aalaysia8
  9. #11,020Aaleigha8
  10. #11,020Aarin8

Tied with 917 names at #10,102; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. 1,602Dafne#2,569#967
  2. 1,493Nevaeh#1,759#266
  3. 1,339Jimena#2,213#874
  4. 1,263Taina#2,174#911
  5. 1,069Yuliana#1,759#690
Fallers
  1. 913Dariana#837#1,750
  2. 368Cortney#825#1,193
  3. 362Maiya#994#1,356
  4. 313Rosalinda#701#1,014
  5. 307Ivana#863#1,170

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2001