Aaliyah
For 2025 the count puts Aaliyah at #101 nationwide, past its crest and settling. A newer arrival, the national records only pick it up in 1976, with 109,971 bearers to date.
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Five printables for Aaliyah, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Aaliyah since 1976
Aaliyah peaked in 2012 at #36; #101 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Aaliyah is most common
Aaliyah is most common in Delaware: 0.58% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. New Mexico (0.51%) and District of Columbia (0.45%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Aaliyah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Archer
#98 in 2025
Amir
#105 in 2025
Autumn
#88 in 2025
Alaia
#117 in 2025
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Adriel
#84 in 2025
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
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About Aaliyah
How popular is the name Aaliyah?
For 2025 the count puts Aaliyah at #101 nationwide, past its crest and settling. The full curve since 1976 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Aaliyah mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Aaliyah keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Is there a sibling name for Aaliyah?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Archer sits closest, with Amir and Autumn just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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