Aliyah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arabic: sublime, exalted; Hebrew: to ascend
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aliyah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 48th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 4.8Kas Aaliyah
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 70Kas Aaliyah
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aliyah itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
69,241 named Aaliyah, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aaliyah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, GY Guyana and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arabic: sublime, exalted; Hebrew: to ascend.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aliyah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 69,241as Aaliyah | 1 in 4.8K | 69K | Aaliyah | 346 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Aaliyah | 44 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Aliyah | 38 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 7.1K | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 17 | Aaliyah | 150 |
| SE Sweden | — | 516as Aliya | 1 in 20K | 516 | — | 9 |
| GY Guyana | #48 | 372as Aaliyah | 1 in 2K | 372 | Aaliyah | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 361 | 1 in 48K | 750 | Aaliyah | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 250as Aliya | 1 in 23K | 250 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | #654 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Aaliyah | 15 |
69,241 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aliyah Khalaf Salehb. 1956IQIraqi humanitarian
- Aliyah Morgensternb. 1967FRresearcher
- Aaliyah Loveb. 1981USAmerican 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(measured from records)
Attested in 65 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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, and where does it come from?
- Arabic: sublime, exalted; Hebrew: to ascend. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Aliyah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 69 thousand people named Aaliyah, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Aliyah?
- In the etymology graph, Aliya, Aliyyah and Aliyya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Aliyah?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 361 people named Aliyah, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Aliyah compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Aliyah is the 48th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Aliyah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aliyahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 48th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.