Aaliah
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 15 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,039since 1994
Aaliah over time
Rank among girls' names. Aaliah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 |
| 2010 | #2,670 | 67 |
| 2009 | #2,643 | 69 |
| 2008 | #3,584 | 45 |
| 2007 | #2,750 | 66 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 |
| 2002 | #3,014 | 48 |
| 2001 | #3,864 | 33 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
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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.
Where Aaliah is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
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- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,799 · 1 in 29,036
Best ever in a state: #1,524 in California, 2009.
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| California | #2,799 | 6 | 1 in 29,036 |
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See more about Aaliah
- 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)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2009 at #2,643 (69 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 43.6% of all girls named Aaliah (453) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 86 | #5,417 (1997) | #6,665 |
| 2000s | 453 | #2,643 (2009) | #3,483 |
| 2010s | 397 | #2,670 (2010) | #4,144 |
| 2020s | 103 | #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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 67,356 of them was named Aaliah, which outranked 70.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,003Ziana25
- #5,003Zoi25
- #5,003Zosia25
- #5,168Aaliah24
- #5,168Adama24
- #5,168Ailana24
- #5,168Ailey24
- #5,314Aarika23
- #5,314Aasiyah23
- #5,314Addisynn23
Tied with 145 names at #5,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.