Aaliah

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births

Peak · girls
2009 · 69 births
Debut · girls
15 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,039
since 1994

Aaliah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Aaliah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201999peak #2,643, 2009girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#6,39418
2023#6,68017
2022#7,63114
2021#5,74821
2020#5,16824
2019#6,41418
2018#6,01020
2017#4,38432
2016#4,42332
2015#3,42946
2014#4,00337
2013#3,77840
2012#3,31449
2011#3,01456
2010#2,67067
2009#2,64369
2008#3,58445
2007#2,75066
2006#3,50545
2005#3,31746
2004#3,39144
2003#4,10932
2002#3,01448
2001#3,86433
2000#4,64925
1999#5,89617
1998#6,07316
1997#5,41718
1996#9,5818
1995#7,04112
1994#5,98415
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First appearance
1994

The first year at least five girls were named Aaliah! It came in at #5,984, and was given to 15 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1995–1996, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aaliah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 3,713 spots since 2024 (#6,394#10,107)
  • 4,939 spots since 2020 (#5,168#10,107)
  • 6,678 spots since 2015 (#3,429#10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1994
  • Peaked 2009 at #2,643 (69 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 7 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 26,531
  • Highest: 1 in 26,531 girls born in 2010 were named Aaliah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,643 in 2009, was only 1 in 26,625 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 43.6% of all girls named Aaliah (453) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s86#5,417 (1997)#6,665
2000s453#2,643 (2009)#3,483
2010s397#2,670 (2010)#4,144
2020s103#5,168 (2020)#6,955

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.

Aaliah in 1999

girls
#5,896
17 births · 1 in 104,343 girls

Top girls' names in 1999

  1. #1Emily26,542
  2. #2Hannah21,679
  3. #3Alexis19,237
  4. #4Sarah19,119
  5. #5Samantha19,044
  6. #6Ashley18,136
  7. #7Madison18,054
  8. #8Taylor16,906
  9. #9Jessica16,350
  10. #10Elizabeth15,350
  11. #5,896Aaliah17
More about 1999

girls

1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 104,343 of them was named Aaliah, which outranked 65.2% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aaliah
  1. #5,661Zitlali18
  2. #5,661Zoha18
  3. #5,661Zykerria18
  4. #5,896Aaliah17
  5. #5,896Aarti17
  6. #5,896Abagael17
  7. #5,896Abagale17
  8. #6,191Adriann16
  9. #6,191Adrien16
  10. #6,191Aeriana16

Tied with 294 names at #5,896; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. 1,407Citlalli#2,338#931
  2. 1,329Noelia#2,048#719
  3. 1,060Amaya#1,458#398
  4. 864Kyara#1,789#925
  5. 604Journey#1,557#953
Fallers
  1. 579Erykah#779#1,358
  2. 417Tea#747#1,164
  3. 415Tasia#800#1,215
  4. 406Monika#930#1,336
  5. 357Chase#952#1,309

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

See the top 100 for 1999