Aaliyah

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aaliyah is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Se Alia.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 2K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 4.8K
  • CACanada1 in 8.7K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈78K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
309 ●

86K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.0K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

AaliyahLatin · English●78K records
อาลียาหThai · Thai●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aliya in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, KZ Kazakhstan and 5 more and Aliyah in PH Philippines, NG Nigeria, DE Germany and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Se Alia.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aaliyah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—69,11369K rec.1 in 4.8K69KAaliyah309
AU Australia#82012,1223.2K rec.—205Aaliyah100
CA Canada#8329,551804 rec.—27Aaliyah69
FR France—7,055△1 rec.1 in 9.6K7.1K—1
GB United Kingdom—4,4612.2K rec.—17Aaliyah116
TR Türkiye—2,1652.6K rec.——Aliya18
PH Philippines—2,111558 rec.——Aliyah44
BE Belgium—1,191171 rec.—57Aaliyah24
NG Nigeria—915670 rec.——Aliyah36
SY Syria—882893 rec.——Aliya2
DE Germany—694440 rec.——Aliyah54
KZ Kazakhstan—651165 rec.——Aliya10

Roughly 69K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 4.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English78K66%
  • French16K14%
  • Spanish4.9K4%
  • Western Frisian1.9K2%
  • German1.9K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English78,35266%
French16,27114%
Spanish4,8684%
Western Frisian1,9482%
German1,8552%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aaliyah is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name17K records spelled Aaliyah6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Âaliyah, Aâliyah, Aaliyâh, Aalîyah

  • Spanish given name6.8K records spelled Aaliyah8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Āaliyah, Aaliyãh, Aãliyah, Aäliyah, Aäliyäh

  • German given name2.0K records spelled Aaliyah5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Aaliyäh, Áaliyah, Aaliyaeh

  • English (Trinidad & Tobago) given name661 records spelled Aaliyah5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Trinidad & Tobago

    Also written Aälïyãh, Aälîyãh, Aålîyáh, Äálîýãh

  • Polish given name654 records spelled Aaliyah2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Áaliyah

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aaliyah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, High, exalted; to ascend

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02K4K6K198019902000201020205.5K · 2012

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Aaliyah in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1976–2025
Yearrecords
197618
197740
197846
197938
198039
198128
198228
198320
198421
198510
198618
198714
198817
198914
199012
199116
199225
199322
19941,451
19951,256
1996831
19971,739
19981,399
19991,088
20001,496
20013,352
20024,779
20033,673
20043,492
20053,459
20063,745
20073,961
20084,046
20094,378
20104,673
20115,129
20125,523
20135,246
20144,902
20154,884
20164,660
20174,197
20183,845
20193,675
20203,584
20213,619
20223,286
20232,858
20242,712
20252,607

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 50 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19701980199020002010Aaliyah, b. 1979Aaliyah Love, b. 1981Aaliyah Brown, b. 1987Aaliyah Hadid, b. 1995Aaliyah Brown, b. 1995Cuban Doll, b. 1998Aaliyah Wilson, b. 1998Aaliyah Edwards, b. 2002Aaliyah Powell, b. 2002Aaliyah Butler, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 70 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Aaliyah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202069K#737
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.9K#158
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.6K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—750#2,485
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—447#2,998
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025372#264
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—258#3,943
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020225—
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)2023205—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024172#383
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024153—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—137#1,285

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 584 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aaliyah?
We estimate roughly 78 thousand people bear Aaliyah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Aaliyah have the most bearers?
We estimate about 69 thousand people bear Aaliyah in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aaliyah.
Where is Aaliyah most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aaliyah is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Aaliyah compared with other names?
In Guyana, Aaliyah is the 40th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
Is Aaliyah a male or female name?
Aaliyah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Aaliyah mean?
Recorded meaning: Se Alia.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aaliyah” — the 40th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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