Alyah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Alyah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Arabic-derived given name; listed among popular Muslim African-American female names.
- FRFrance≈1 in 143K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 38K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 62K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,196 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arabic-derived given name; listed among popular Muslim African-American female names.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alyah 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 | 1,196 | 1 in 278K | 1.2K | Alyah | 26 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Alyah | 34 |
| FR France | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 2.2K | Alyah | 81 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Alyah | 18 |
| BR Brazil | 88 | 1 in 2.4M | 88 | — | — |
| KW Kuwait | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Alyah | 16 |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
1,196 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- What does the name Alyah mean, and where does it come from?
- Arabic-derived given name; listed among popular Muslim African-American female names. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Alyah a male or female name?
- Alyah 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.
- In which country does Alyah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Alyah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alyah.
- How common is the name Alyah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,196 people named Alyah in 2020, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alyahThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Alyah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.