Aliyah
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aliyah 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: Arabic: sublime, exalted; Hebrew: to ascend.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 309 ●
- 1 in 2.0K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
86K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aaliyah in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada and 7 more and Aliya in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, KZ Kazakhstan and 5 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●
Arabic: sublime, exalted; Hebrew: to ascend.
Sources 1
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Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 69,113 | 69K rec. | 1 in 4.8K | 69K | Aaliyah | 309 |
| AU Australia | #820 | 12,122 | 3.2K rec. | — | 205 | Aaliyah | 100 |
| CA Canada | #832 | 9,551 | 804 rec. | — | 27 | Aaliyah | 69 |
| FR France | — | 7,055△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 9.6K | 7.1K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,461 | 2.2K rec. | — | 17 | Aaliyah | 116 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,165 | 2.6K rec. | — | — | Aliya | 18 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,111 | 558 rec. | — | — | Aliyah | 44 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,191 | 171 rec. | — | 57 | Aaliyah | 24 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 915 | 670 rec. | — | — | Aliyah | 36 |
| SY Syria | — | 882 | 893 rec. | — | — | Aliya | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | 694 | 440 rec. | — | — | Aliyah | 54 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 651 | 165 rec. | — | — | Aliya | 10 |
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●
- English41K47%
- French26K30%
- Indonesian3.2K4%
- Spanish2.9K3%
- Arabic2.8K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 40,699 | 47% |
| French | 26,213 | 30% |
| Indonesian | 3,169 | 4% |
| Spanish | 2,897 | 3% |
| Arabic | 2,846 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Aliyah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
wt sublime; eminent
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 9 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 13 |
| 1980 | 23 |
| 1981 | 26 |
| 1982 | 21 |
| 1983 | 28 |
| 1984 | 31 |
| 1985 | 27 |
| 1986 | 31 |
| 1987 | 32 |
| 1988 | 38 |
| 1989 | 26 |
| 1990 | 45 |
| 1991 | 48 |
| 1992 | 56 |
| 1993 | 66 |
| 1994 | 732 |
| 1995 | 785 |
| 1996 | 675 |
| 1997 | 897 |
| 1998 | 878 |
| 1999 | 867 |
| 2000 | 1,116 |
| 2001 | 1,411 |
| 2002 | 1,607 |
| 2003 | 1,392 |
| 2004 | 1,529 |
| 2005 | 1,462 |
| 2006 | 1,452 |
| 2007 | 1,611 |
| 2008 | 1,754 |
| 2009 | 1,991 |
| 2010 | 2,163 |
| 2011 | 2,301 |
| 2012 | 2,265 |
| 2013 | 2,115 |
| 2014 | 1,971 |
| 2015 | 1,974 |
| 2016 | 2,008 |
| 2017 | 1,915 |
| 2018 | 1,777 |
| 2019 | 1,678 |
| 2020 | 1,532 |
| 2021 | 1,441 |
| 2022 | 1,308 |
| 2023 | 1,352 |
| 2024 | 1,314 |
| 2025 | 1,188 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 53 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Aliyah Khalaf Salehb. 1956IQIraqi humanitarian
- Aliyah Morgensternb. 1967FRresearcher
- Aaliyah Loveb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Aliyah O'Brienb. 1981CACanadian actress
- Aliyah Saleemb. 1989GBauthor and secular activist
- Aliyah Kolfb. 1999NLDutch singer
- Aliyah Royaleb. 2000USAmerican actress
- Aliyah Bostonb. 2001USAmerican basketball player (born 2001)
- Aliyah's Interludeb. 2003USAmerican social media personality
- Aliyah bint al-Mansurabbasid princess and sister of al-Mahdi
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 64 sources across 43 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 460 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aliyah?
- We estimate roughly 78 thousand people bear Aliyah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Aliyah have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 69 thousand people bear Aliyah in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aaliyah.
- Where is Aliyah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aliyah 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 Aliyah compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Aliyah is the 40th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
- Is Aliyah a male or female name?
- Aliyah 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 Aliyah mean?
- Recorded meaning: Arabic: sublime, exalted; Hebrew: to ascend.
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About this data
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, “Aliyah” — the 40th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.