How popular is “Aalyah” in the USA?

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

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

This chart shows how “Aalyah” 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	Bias toward female
1994	10	0.00000269	10	100%
1995	13	0.00000355	13	100%
1996	13	0.000003564	13	100%
1997	21	0.000005792	21	100%
1998	14	0.000003806	14	100%
1999	12	0.000003249	12	100%
2000	22	0.00000582	22	100%
2001	36	0.000009617	36	100%
2002	51	0.000013643	51	100%
2003	44	0.000011572	44	100%
2004	37	0.000009684	37	100%
2005	36	0.000009363	36	100%
2006	38	0.000009605	38	100%
2007	43	0.000010756	43	100%
2008	39	0.000009922	39	100%
2009	29	0.000007591	29	100%
2010	34	0.0000092	34	100%
2011	35	0.000009569	35	100%
2012	26	0.000007109	26	100%
2013	20	0.000005486	20	100%
2014	17	0.000004587	17	100%
2015	23	0.000006215	23	100%
2016	15	0.000004089	15	100%
2017	12	0.000003356	12	100%
2018	11	0.000003129	11	100%
2019	7	0.000002017	7	100%
2020	15	0.00000449	15	100%
2021	16	0.000004723	16	100%
2022	13	0.000003843	13	100%
2023	13	0.000003926	13	100%
2024	15	0.000004507	15	100%

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