Name meaning & stats
Aaliyah
Aaliyah means “exalted, sublime” (Arabic origin). 110,077 US babies since 1940, peak 2012.
What it means
“exalted, sublime”
ArabicWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2012
110,077 US babies were named Aaliyah between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Aaliyah (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 36% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2012)