Alliyah
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 147 births
- Debut · girls
- 94 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,013since 1994
Alliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Alliyah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 |
| 2015 | #2,736 | 64 |
| 2014 | #2,497 | 72 |
| 2013 | #2,152 | 87 |
| 2012 | #1,760 | 117 |
| 2011 | #1,817 | 111 |
| 2010 | #1,794 | 114 |
| 2009 | #1,695 | 131 |
| 2008 | #1,635 | 138 |
| 2007 | #1,894 | 109 |
| 2006 | #1,771 | 117 |
| 2005 | #1,690 | 117 |
| 2004 | #1,363 | 154 |
| 2003 | #1,439 | 137 |
| 2002 | #1,185 | 173 |
| 2001 | #1,257 | 156 |
| 2000 | #1,335 | 141 |
| 1999 | #1,238 | 152 |
| 1998 | #1,295 | 138 |
| 1997 | #1,187 | 153 |
| 1996 | #1,389 | 120 |
| 1995 | #1,169 | 147 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 94 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alliyah! It came in at #1,608, and was given to 94 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2022–2025, when fewer than 22 girls a year got the name.
Where Alliyah is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#800 · 1 in 4,197
- Georgia#868 · 1 in 4,802
- Pennsylvania#985 · 1 in 6,918
- Indiana#1,030 · 1 in 6,501
- Arizona#1,074 · 1 in 6,082
Best ever in a state: #312 in South Carolina, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #800 | 5 | 1 in 4,197 |
| Georgia | #868 | 11 | 1 in 4,802 |
| Pennsylvania | #985 | 8 | 1 in 6,918 |
| Indiana | #1,030 | 5 | 1 in 6,501 |
| Arizona | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 6,082 |
| Ohio | #1,111 | 7 | 1 in 8,056 |
| Illinois | #1,365 | 7 | 1 in 9,461 |
| New York | #1,615 | 8 | 1 in 11,941 |
| Texas | #1,665 | 13 | 1 in 12,901 |
| Florida | #1,828 | 6 | 1 in 14,347 |
| California | #1,938 | 13 | 1 in 17,642 |
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See more about Alliyah
- 926 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #6,325)
- 1,677 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #6,325)
- 3,589 spots since 2015 (#2,736 → #6,325)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 1995 at #1,169 (147 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,387 girls born in 2002 were named Alliyah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,169 in 1995, was only 1 in 11,963 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 45.6% of all girls named Alliyah (1,373) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 804 | #1,169 (1995) | #1,314 |
| 2000s | 1,373 | #1,185 (2002) | #1,526 |
| 2010s | 713 | #1,760 (2012) | #2,910 |
| 2020s | 123 | #4,648 (2020) | #6,005 |
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.
Alliyah in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
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1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 13,702 of them was named Alliyah, which outranked 92.0% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,631Mabel139
- #1,631Vianey139
- #1,631Violeta139
- #1,635Alliyah138
- #1,635Azalea138
- #1,635Charleigh138
- #1,635Hollie138
- #1,642Addilyn137
- #1,642Amaria137
- #1,642Andie137
Tied with 6 names at #1,635; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.