Aliyyah

given name · Latin script

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

/ælɪjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Aliyyah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 250K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

228 people, 2020

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aliyyah 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.

Where Aliyyah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2281 in 1.5M228Aliyyah21
NL Netherlands101 in 1.7M10—2
GY Guyana31 in 250K3——
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——
ID Indonesia———Aliyyah48

228 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Queen Alia of Jordan, b. 1948Alia Janine, b. 1978Isis Love, b. 1980Alia Guagni, b. 1987Alia Atkinson, b. 1988Alia Shawkat, b. 1989Alia Sabur, b. 1989Alia Bhatt, b. 1993Aliya Mustafina, b. 1994Alia Issa, b. 2001
  • Queen Alia of Jordanb. 1948JOnot in their usual nameQueen Consort of Jordan (1972-1977)
  • Alia Janineb. 1978USnot in their usual namecomedian and pornographic performer (b. 1978)
  • Isis Loveb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
  • Alia Guagnib. 1987ITnot in their usual nameItalian association football player
  • Alia Atkinsonb. 1988JMnot in their usual nameJamaican swimmer
  • Alia Shawkatb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
  • Alia Saburb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican mathematician
  • Alia Bhattb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
  • Aliya Mustafinab. 1994RUnot in their usual nameRussian gymnast
  • Alia Issab. 2001SYnot in their usual nameParalympic athlete

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Aliyyah,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Aliyyah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020228#35,338
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199718—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199414—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201113—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199913—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200712—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199612—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200411—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—10#22,406
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199510—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199210—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20068—

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

How do you pronounce Aliyyah?
A machine transcription gives /ælɪjə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Aliyyah a male or female name?
Aliyyah 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 are other forms of the name Aliyyah?
In the etymology graph, Aliye, Aliya and Aliyah are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Aliyyah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 228 people named Aliyyah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aliyyah.
Where is Aliyyah most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aliyyah is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Aliyyah?
In the United States, the national register counted 228 people named Aliyyah in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

What do you want to know about Aliyyah?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aliyyah

The 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, “Aliyyah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Aliyyah parses inside a full name →