Aleiah
Feminine
Aleiah belongs to a cluster of American names built on an A- opening and a light vowel-heavy ending, all of which sound alike and differ only in how they are written.
How old is the name Aleiah?
Aleiah first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Aleiah is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Aleiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aleiah most popular?
Aleiah peaked in 2020, reaching #2779 nationally. Today it ranks #3459, 680 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Aleiah
Ours, offered as ours. The sound behind Aleiah has a real and rather good pair of neighbors. In Arabic the root means to be high, and in Hebrew a closely related word means an ascent — the same idea reached by two related languages. Whether any American family had either in mind when they wrote Aleiah is not recorded. What the spelling does is take a much-used sound and give it a shape nobody else has, which is the ordinary purpose of a respelling and a fair one.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for this spelling. Two genuine neighbors: Arabic aliyah, exalted or high, which gives Aaliyah; and Hebrew aliyah, an ascent, used for immigration to Israel and for being called up to read the Torah. Neither is documented as the source of this spelling.
Pronouncing Aleiah
uh-LAY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say uh-LEE-ah.
Nicknames for Aleiah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1994
- Most girls named
- 202059 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2779reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- +4.8%44 in 2025, from 42
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aleiah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aliyah in Arabic — related form
- Aliyah in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Aleiahs among us
people named Aleiah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 36,529 born in 2025 was named Aleiah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aleiah
- #3459
- Aleiah on the 2025 chart
- #421
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aleiah went to 44 girls in 2025, but Aleia, Aleyah and Aleya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 10 spellings went to 680, which makes it the 421st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,038 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 2,364 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 36,529 for Aleiah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tyann test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aleiah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tyann climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tyann's path sketches the road Aleiah is walking now.
Aleiah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Aleiah is headed
Aleiah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aleiah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aleiah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ali and Leia are both usable short forms with their own lives.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Aliyah, Aleah, Aleia and Aleiah are all in use and she will spell hers aloud for life.
- The middle vowel is unsettled between LAY and LEE.
- There is no documented meaning for this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aleiahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Aleiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aleiah?
- Aleiah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Aleia is the more common one — 279 births in 2025 against 44 for Aleiah.
- How popular is the name Aleiah in 2025?
- Aleiah ranks #3459 among US girl names in 2025, with 44 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aleiah?
- About 1 in every 36,529 US girls born in 2025 was named Aleiah — 44 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aleiah with classmates?
- Aleiah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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