Aleyah

#1,710 for girls in 2025, 119 births

Peak · girls
2012 · 135 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,805
since 1991

Aleyah over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997peak #1,602, 2012girls
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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#1,710119
2024#1,895105
2023#1,736118
2022#1,648128
2021#1,622129
2020#1,792110
2019#1,668126
2018#2,55768
2017#2,01897
2016#2,16889
2015#1,894107
2014#1,781115
2013#1,775115
2012#1,602135
2011#1,728119
2010#1,992100
2009#1,876112
2008#1,977106
2007#2,034100
2006#2,45975
2005#2,55367
2004#2,99852
2003#2,92352
2002#2,41466
2001#2,54060
2000#2,70854
1999#2,81248
1998#2,69150
1997#2,51151
1996#3,09338
1995#3,02238
1994#2,46551
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five girls were named Aleyah! It came in at #13,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1991–1993, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Aleyah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 185 spots since 2024 (#1,895#1,710)
  • 82 spots since 2020 (#1,792#1,710)
  • 184 spots since 2015 (#1,894#1,710)
Rise & fade · girls
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2012 at #1,602 (135 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 12,720
  • Highest: 1 in 12,720 girls born in 2021 were named Aleyah (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,506 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,602 in 2012, was only 1 in 13,045 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 38.2% of all girls named Aleyah (1,071) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s281#2,465 (1994)#4,249
2000s744#1,876 (2009)#2,448
2010s1,071#1,602 (2012)#1,918
2020s709#1,622 (2021)#1,734

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.

Aleyah in 1997

girls
#2,511
51 births · 1 in 34,132 girls

Top girls' names in 1997

  1. #1Emily25,734
  2. #2Jessica21,045
  3. #3Ashley20,897
  4. #4Sarah20,716
  5. #5Hannah20,597
  6. #6Samantha20,170
  7. #7Taylor19,504
  8. #8Alexis17,171
  9. #9Elizabeth15,430
  10. #10Madison15,189
  11. #2,511Aleyah51
More about 1997

girls

1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 34,132 of them was named Aleyah, which outranked 84.5% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Aleyah
  1. #2,481Tynesha52
  2. #2,481Tytianna52
  3. #2,481Zuri52
  4. #2,511Aleyah51
  5. #2,511Adara51
  6. #2,511Adia51
  7. #2,511Alise51
  8. #2,556Afton50
  9. #2,556Aime50
  10. #2,556Amberlee50

Tied with 44 names at #2,511; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. 9,582Yulisa#10,567#985
  2. 3,882Yulissa#4,306#424
  3. 2,634Tea#3,429#795
  4. 2,046Taya#2,901#855
  5. 1,202Julisa#1,930#728
Fallers
  1. 931Yamilex#707#1,638
  2. 477Suzette#998#1,475
  3. 457Chynna#834#1,291
  4. 396Moesha#547#943
  5. 377Daijah#975#1,352

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

See the top 100 for 1997