Analiyah
Feminine · “grace”
Analiyah joins Ana to the -liyah ending, and Ana is the Hebrew for grace — one of the most-used names in Europe for two thousand years.
How old is the name Analiyah?
Analiyah first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Analiyah is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Analiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Analiyah most popular?
Analiyah peaked in 2025, reaching #1880 nationally. Today it ranks #1880, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From channah to Analiyah
Our story of Analiyah
Our story of Analiyah is a story of two of the busiest components in American naming meeting. Ana has been opening European names since antiquity; -liyah arrived with Aaliyah in the 1990s and spread across dozens of names within a decade. Analiyah appears in the American registers in the 2000s from that junction. Both halves have real ancestries, in Hebrew and Arabic respectively; the compound is American, and both facts are worth keeping.
Meaningscholars disagree
grace
The Ana element is from the Hebrew channah, 'grace' or 'favor', and is settled. The -liyah ending descends from the Aaliyah family, itself from the Arabic aliyah, 'exalted'. Whether Analiyah is a deliberate blend or a coinage on the sound is not documented.
How the name formed
- channah
- Ana
- Analiyah
Related forms: Analia · Analía · Anelia
Pronouncing Analiyah
an-uh-LEE-uh
Four syllables, stress on the third. Spanish Analía says ah-nah-LEE-ah.
Nicknames for Analiyah
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
- 2001
- Most girls named
- 2025104 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1880reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +35.1%104 in 2025, from 77
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.
Analiyah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Analia in English — related form
- Analía in Spanish — related form
- Anelia in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Analiyahs among us
people named Analiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,454 born in 2025 was named Analiyah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Analiyah
- #1880
- Analiyah on the 2025 chart
- #412
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Analiyah went to 104 girls in 2025, but Analia, Annalia and Analiah and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 10 spellings went to 695, which makes it the 412th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,468 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 2,313 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 15,454 for Analiyah 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 Breyanna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Analiyah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Breyanna climbed just as high around 1995, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Breyanna's path sketches the road Analiyah is walking now.
Analiyah 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 Analiyah is headed
Analiyah should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Analiyah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Analiyah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The grace element is genuine Hebrew and its meaning is undisputed.
- Ana and Lia are two short forms, both names in their own right.
- Four syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- The compound is a modern formation rather than an inherited name.
- Analía is a genuine Spanish name and is close enough to be confused.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Analiyahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Analiyah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Analiyah?
- Analiyah is one of 8 recorded spellings. Analia is the more common one — 394 births in 2025 against 104 for Analiyah.
- How popular is the name Analiyah in 2025?
- Analiyah ranks #1880 among US girl names in 2025, with 104 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Analiyah?
- About 1 in every 15,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Analiyah — 104 in all.
- Will my child share the name Analiyah with classmates?
- Analiyah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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