girls:
50 births since 1998
#5666 (1st percentile)
boys:
321 births since 1997
#4265 (7th percentile)
overall:
371 births since 1997
#7368 (5th percentile)
The name Alyjah is the #7,368 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 371 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 4.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,265 (6.9% percentile) for all time with 321 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,666 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 50 births since 1998.
Alyjah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Alyjah is available in 26 out of the 27 years between 1997 and 2023 (26 years for boys and 8 years for girls). 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 Alyjah has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Alyjah were boys.
For boys, Alyjah reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #864) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Alyjah ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 64.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Alyjah reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #964) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alyjah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Alyjah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Alyjah is pronounced as uh-LEE-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LAI-juh, at 41.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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