Aaliyah is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning “exalted.” In 2024 it was given to 2,703 girls in the United States.
Aaliyah belongs to the Muslim & Arabic and English & American tradition. Its meaning — “exalted” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Aaliyah first appears in Social Security records in 1976. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #36 in 2012, and in 2024 2,703 babies received the name — 107,314 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Aaliyah means “exalted” in its Arabic roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Aaliyah is a girl name. In 2024, 2,703 babies received the name in the US.
Aaliyah comes from the Muslim & Arabic and English & American tradition.
Aaliyah first appears in US records in 1976. Its best-ever ranking was #36 in 2012, and 2,703 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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