girls:
46.5k births since 1971
#605 (89th percentile)
boys:
43 births since 2002
#4543 (1st percentile)
overall:
46.5k births since 1971
#1129 (85th percentile)
The name Aliyah is the #1,129 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 46,527 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 85.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #605 (89.4% percentile) for all time with 46,484 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,543 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 2002.
Aliyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 2002 for boys). Birth data for Aliyah is available in 51 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (51 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aliyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Aliyah reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 86.0% percentile (ranked #132) with 1,187 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 1,187 births per million (ranked 86.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aliyah ranks #211 for girls (77.8% percentile) with 769 births per million, which is 64.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Aliyah reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #841) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aliyah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Aliyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Aliyah is pronounced as uh-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-yuh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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