Name meaning & stats
Aliyah
Aliyah means “ascent” (Arabic origin). 49,054 US babies since 1940, peak 2011.
What it means
“ascent”
ArabicWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2011
49,054 US babies were named Aliyah between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Aliyah (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 6 Aaliyahs spell it Aliyah
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2011)