girls:
1.4k births since 1994
#4329 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1994
#6344 (18th percentile)
The name Aaleyah is the #6,344 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,399 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 18.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,329 (24.2% percentile) for all time with 1,399 births since 1994.
Aaleyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (first recorded for girls in 1994).
For girls, Aaleyah reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 15.6% percentile (ranked #810) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 79 births per million (ranked 15.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aaleyah ranks #929 for girls (1.9% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 16.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aaleyah".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Aaleyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.3% confident that Aaleyah is pronounced as AH-lee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-uh, at 19.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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