How popular is “Aaliyah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Aaliyah” 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 “Aaliyah” has changed over time.

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

This chart shows how “Aaliyah” 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
1976	18	0.000005932	18		100%
1977	40	0.000012592	40		100%
1978	46	0.000014493	46		100%
1979	38	0.000011422	38		100%
1980	39	0.000011322	39		100%
1981	28	0.000008094	28		100%
1982	28	0.000007982	28		100%
1983	20	0.000005775	20		100%
1984	21	0.000006019	21		100%
1985	10	0.000002802	10		100%
1986	18	0.00000506	18		100%
1987	14	0.000003883	14		100%
1988	17	0.000004601	17		100%
1989	14	0.000003642	14		100%
1990	12	0.000003036	12		100%
1991	16	0.000004108	16		100%
1992	25	0.000006508	25		100%
1993	22	0.000005835	22		100%
1994	1457	0.000391914	1451	6	99%
1995	1256	0.000342967	1256		100%
1996	831	0.000227846	831		100%
1997	1739	0.000479625	1739		100%
1998	1404	0.000381708	1399	5	99%
1999	1088	0.000294542	1088		100%
2000	1496	0.000395777	1496		100%
2001	3360	0.000897582	3352	8	100%
2002	4787	0.001280532	4779	8	100%
2003	3679	0.000967567	3673	6	100%
2004	3503	0.000916794	3492	11	99%
2005	3469	0.000902247	3459	10	99%
2006	3745	0.000946618	3745		100%
2007	3960	0.000990574	3960		100%
2008	4045	0.001029088	4045		100%
2009	4378	0.001146021	4378		100%
2010	4678	0.001265782	4672	6	100%
2011	5127	0.001401665	5127		100%
2012	5529	0.001511743	5522	7	100%
2013	5257	0.001441986	5245	12	100%
2014	4904	0.001323125	4899	5	100%
2015	4883	0.001319404	4878	5	100%
2016	4656	0.001269115	4656		100%
2017	4202	0.001174992	4195	7	100%
2018	3844	0.00109332	3844		100%
2019	3677	0.001059369	3672	5	100%
2020	3578	0.001071072	3578		100%
2021	3613	0.001066427	3613		100%
2022	3284	0.000970697	3284		100%
2023	2862	0.00086434	2857	5	100%
2024	2703	0.000812077	2703		100%

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