How popular is “Aliyah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Aliyah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Aliyah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Aliyah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Aliyah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1971	5	0.000001457	5		100%
1973	6	0.000001989	6		100%
1974	9	0.000002961	9		100%
1976	6	0.000001977	6		100%
1977	7	0.000002204	7		100%
1978	6	0.00000189	6		100%
1979	13	0.000003907	13		100%
1980	23	0.000006677	23		100%
1981	26	0.000007516	26		100%
1982	21	0.000005986	21		100%
1983	28	0.000008085	28		100%
1984	31	0.000008886	31		100%
1985	27	0.000007565	27		100%
1986	31	0.000008715	31		100%
1987	32	0.000008875	32		100%
1988	38	0.000010284	38		100%
1989	26	0.000006763	26		100%
1990	45	0.000011385	45		100%
1991	48	0.000012323	48		100%
1992	56	0.000014579	56		100%
1993	66	0.000017505	66		100%
1994	732	0.000196898	732		100%
1995	785	0.000214355	785		100%
1996	675	0.000185074	675		100%
1997	897	0.000247397	897		100%
1998	878	0.000238703	878		100%
1999	867	0.000234713	867		100%
2000	1116	0.000295246	1116		100%
2001	1411	0.000376931	1411		100%
2002	1612	0.000431213	1607	5	99%
2003	1392	0.000366092	1392		100%
2004	1540	0.000403044	1529	11	99%
2005	1462	0.000380249	1462		100%
2006	1458	0.000368536	1452	6	99%
2007	1611	0.000402983	1611		100%
2008	1754	0.000446235	1754		100%
2009	1991	0.00052118	1991		100%
2010	2169	0.000586892	2163	6	99%
2011	2301	0.000629068	2301		100%
2012	2263	0.000618751	2263		100%
2013	2115	0.000580141	2115		100%
2014	1971	0.000531786	1971		100%
2015	1977	0.000534193	1972	5	99%
2016	2008	0.000547333	2008		100%
2017	1920	0.000536883	1915	5	99%
2018	1777	0.000505419	1777		100%
2019	1682	0.000484596	1677	5	99%
2020	1530	0.000458005	1530		100%
2021	1440	0.000425036	1440		100%
2022	1308	0.000386624	1308		100%
2023	1351	0.00040801	1351		100%
2024	1311	0.000393871	1311		100%

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