# Alijah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/alijah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15,681 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14,231 / 1,450 (9% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 230, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 5,555 |
| 2012 | 28 | 4,974 |
| 2013 | 24 | 5,498 |
| 2014 | 29 | 4,774 |
| 2015 | 86 | 2,195 |
| 2016 | 56 | 2,968 |
| 2017 | 61 | 2,781 |
| 2018 | 55 | 2,964 |
| 2019 | 56 | 2,927 |
| 2020 | 47 | 3,284 |
| 2021 | 30 | 4,510 |
| 2022 | 34 | 4,208 |
| 2023 | 18 | 6,421 |
| 2024 | 22 | 5,625 |
| 2025 | 14 | 7,505 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 582 | 458 |
| 2012 | 600 | 454 |
| 2013 | 526 | 509 |
| 2014 | 580 | 484 |
| 2015 | 621 | 482 |
| 2016 | 588 | 509 |
| 2017 | 619 | 476 |
| 2018 | 590 | 489 |
| 2019 | 606 | 483 |
| 2020 | 669 | 447 |
| 2021 | 762 | 408 |
| 2022 | 653 | 470 |
| 2023 | 702 | 443 |
| 2024 | 739 | 429 |
| 2025 | 651 | 469 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2,459 |
| 2015 | 17 | 1,442 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 13 | 1,812 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,273 |
| 2021 | 17 | 1,448 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1,268 |
| 2023 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,322 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,153 |

## People named Alijah

- Alijah Martin, American basketball player (born 2001)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.