Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: ArabicAaliyah is a female given name with origins in Hebrew that became popular in Arabic, making it a common given name for girls born to Muslim families. In 2007, an increase in usage was attributed to the fame of the American pop singer Aaliyah.
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In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Aaliyah yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Aaliyah's arc is almost entirely explained by one person. The singer Aaliyah, born 1979, died in 2001, and the name reached its highest birth count of 5,522 and best rank of 36 in 2012 — a delayed peak rather than an immediate one, which is the usual shape when a name is carried by memory instead of active fame. A 45% drop since then brings it to 2,703 births and rank 93. The name entered American data in 1976, three years before the singer, and has accumulated 107,420 births, the overwhelming majority after 1994. Of Arabic origin and with exactly one recorded bearer, this is about as clean a case of single-person attribution as the dataset contains — and the decline that follows is equally characteristic.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 18 | #3,678 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,257 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,050 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,430 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,440 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,066 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,093 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,806 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,726 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,456 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,348 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,312 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,840 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,836 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,867 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,659 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,088 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,524 |
| 1994 | 1,451 | #201 |
| 1995 | 1,256 | #225 |
| 1996 | 831 | #335 |
| 1997 | 1,739 | #176 |
| 1998 | 1,399 | #222 |
| 1999 | 1,088 | #287 |
| 2000 | 1,496 | #211 |
| 2001 | 3,352 | #96 |
| 2002 | 4,779 | #64 |
| 2003 | 3,673 | #90 |
| 2004 | 3,492 | #94 |
| 2005 | 3,459 | #93 |
| 2006 | 3,745 | #90 |
| 2007 | 3,960 | #83 |
| 2008 | 4,045 | #76 |
| 2009 | 4,378 | #63 |
| 2010 | 4,672 | #56 |
| 2011 | 5,127 | #46 |
| 2012 | 5,522 | #36 |
| 2013 | 5,245 | #37 |
| 2014 | 4,899 | #45 |
| 2015 | 4,878 | #47 |
| 2016 | 4,656 | #53 |
| 2017 | 4,195 | #57 |
| 2018 | 3,844 | #65 |
| 2019 | 3,672 | #70 |
| 2020 | 3,578 | #65 |
| 2021 | 3,613 | #61 |
| 2022 | 3,284 | #69 |
| 2023 | 2,857 | #85 |
| 2024 | 2,703 | #93 |
