Aleah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aleah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aleah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #276 in 2016, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#276highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1296
1997	#1802
1998	#1392
1999	#1970
2000	#2167
2001	#1520
2002	#822
2003	#1224
2004	#1252
2005	#1045
2006	#1004
2007	#1196
2008	#1516
2009	#1325
2010	#1472
2011	#1489
2012	#1210
2013	#1956
2014	#1341
2015	#1114
2016	#1241
2017	#1219
2018	#1887
2019	#1497
2020	#2163
2021	#1692
2022	#2178
2023	#4056
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2016: #276 among girls in Northern Ireland, #1241 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1296 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2009–2016
Highest recorded position: #276 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2016 (recorded 2009–2016).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Aleah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 525 births with the name.

Aleah across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aleah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1296 (1996)	#822 (2002)	#2574 (2024)	29 of 29	525 (1996–2024)	31 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#419 (2009)	#276 (2016)	#276 (2016)	3 of 8	12 (2009–2016)	6 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#907 (2012)	#752 (2014)	#752 (2014)	2 of 3	7 (2012–2014)	4 (2014)

Aleah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aleah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	44	4 of 10	11
2000s	199	10 of 10	20
2010sbusiest	226	10 of 10	23
2020s	56	5 of 10	11

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 23 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aleah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #276 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Aleah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2178	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1692	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1887	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1219	28	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1241	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1114	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1341	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1210	27	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1489	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1472	20	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1325	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1196	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1004	28	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1045	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1224	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#822	29	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1392	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1802	9	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1296	14	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#276	6	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #276, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Aldo · #304, 26y
Alea · #1206, 22y
Alec · #249, 42y
Alecia · #419, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aqsa · #276, 30y
Chanelle · #277, 27y
Gregor · #277, 27y
Jackie · #277, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aqsa · #276, 30y
Chanelle · #277, 27y
Dahlia · #275, 27y
Emely · #277, 31y

Aleah was ranked #276 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aleah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aleah without appearing here.

Aleah moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #5891.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1520 and #3998.
Denise Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #4843.
Jesse Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2574 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Aleah

Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2178 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #1959.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2178 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #2063.
Diane Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2178 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #2504.
Linnea Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2178 and #2325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #2689.

Moved the opposite way to Aleah

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Aleah

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aleah went from #1296 to #2574 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #276 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aleah

Aleah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aleah across 3 official records

Aleah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Popularity data

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Aleah at a glance

Aleah across 3 official records

Aleah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aleah appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aleah

Aleah and the names beside it

Aleah moved ahead of

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