Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Alyah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Alyah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Alyah” 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.

Popularity of “Alyah” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Alyah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Alyah” 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.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1994 14 0.000003766 14 100%
1995 25 0.000006827 25 100%
1996 24 0.00000658 24 100%
1997 32 0.000008826 32 100%
1998 25 0.000006797 25 100%
1999 35 0.000009475 35 100%
2000 55 0.000014551 55 100%
2001 58 0.000015494 58 100%
2002 58 0.000015515 58 100%
2003 53 0.000013939 53 100%
2004 48 0.000012562 48 100%
2005 59 0.000015345 59 100%
2006 59 0.000014913 59 100%
2007 59 0.000014759 59 100%
2008 50 0.00001272 50 100%
2009 65 0.000017015 65 100%
2010 57 0.000015423 57 100%
2011 52 0.000014216 52 100%
2012 55 0.000015038 55 100%
2013 50 0.000013715 50 100%
2014 43 0.000011602 43 100%
2015 48 0.00001297 48 100%
2016 30 0.000008177 30 100%
2017 39 0.000010905 39 100%
2018 42 0.000011946 42 100%
2019 34 0.000009796 34 100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 100%
2021 40 0.000011807 40 100%
2022 48 0.000014188 48 100%
2023 53 0.000016006 53 100%
2024 65 0.000019528 65 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Alyah:

  1. Aly
  2. Alya
  3. Alyaa
  4. Alyaan
  5. Alyaanah
  6. Alyah (this page)
  7. Alyamamah
  8. Alyan
  9. Alyana
  10. Alyanah
  11. Alyani