Aliyu
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aliyu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy).
- NGNigeria1 in 494◐
- KEKenya1 in 44K
- CMCameroon1 in 53K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3 ●
- Sources
- 120 ●
- 1 in 13M ◐
across 1 country
185K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin●
From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy).
Sources 1
Attested across 13 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #29 | 147,429 | 183K rec. | — | listed | Aliyu | 120 |
| KE Kenya | — | 654 | 2 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 3 |
| US United States | — | 449 | 959 rec. | — | 186 | Aliyu | 88 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 175 | 230 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 63 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 41 | 18 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 15 |
| IN India | — | 40 | 35 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 17 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 37 | 56 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 6 |
| GH Ghana | — | 34 | 47 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 14 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 31 | 44 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 31 | 70 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 26 |
| CN China | — | 23 | 4 rec. | — | — | Aliyu | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 3△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English147K61%
- Swahili46K19%
- Indonesian12K5%
- Amharic10K4%
- Arabic8.2K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 147,371 | 61% |
| Swahili | 46,412 | 19% |
| Indonesian | 11,589 | 5% |
| Amharic | 10,463 | 4% |
| Arabic | 8,226 | 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●
Aliyu 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 Yoruba, a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Ali
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Akilu Aliyub. 1918NGNigerian poet
- Saratu Iya Aliyub. 1948NG20th president of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture
- Jummai Babangida Aliyub. 1959NGNigerian teacher and education research officer
- Jelani Aliyub. 1968NGNigerian automotive designer
- Abdulkadir Aliyub. 1974NGUniversity Librarian,Nasarawa State University Keffi.
- Sumayya Aliyub. 1988NGphysician
- Aliyu Nnamigi Aishatb. 1988NGNigerian Politician
- Hadiza Aliyub. 1989NGNigerian actress
- Ibrahim Aliyub. 2002NGNigerian footballer
- Murtala Aliyu IbrahimNGAccountant
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 186 | #102,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 103 | #157,234 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #33,359 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,917 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #57,602 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #124,947 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #8,193 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #303,245 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #41,168 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #55,554 |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 14 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Aliyu?
- We estimate roughly 3 people bear Aliyu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Aliyu have the most bearers?
- Aliyu is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled aliyu.
- How common is Aliyu compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Aliyu is the 29th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Aliyu a male or female name?
- Aliyu is a male 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 Aliyu mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy).
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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, “Aliyu” — the 29th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.