Aliya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Aliya: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #367 in 2002, and it stood at #544 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#367highest recorded position
10groupings 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	#491
1997	#689
1998	#530
1999	#515
2000	#557
2001	#455
2002	#367
2003	#441
2004	#409
2005	#473
2006	#398
2007	#429
2008	#427
2009	#455
2010	#482
2011	#575
2012	#483
2013	#519
2014	#547
2015	#525
2016	#537
2017	#439
2018	#426
2019	#506
2020	#521
2021	#513
2022	#541
2023	#600
2024	#565

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 2024: #476 among girls in Scotland, #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #565 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #491 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #367 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Aliya 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 2,252 births with the name.

Aliya 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.

Aliya'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	#491 (1996)	#367 (2002)	#565 (2024)	29 of 29	2,252 (1996–2024)	105 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#458 (2022)	#544 (2025)	17 of 23	85 (2003–2025)	8 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#451 (2012)	#439 (2014)	#439 (2014)	2 of 3	6 (2012–2014)	3 (2012)

Aliya 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 Aliya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	198	4 of 10	50
2000sbusiest	846	10 of 10	85
2010s	847	10 of 10	85
2020s	361	5 of 10	72

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 85 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 27, from 78 to 105.

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

Aliya 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #367 in England and Wales in 2002.

Aliya'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	#565	69	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#600	63	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#541	72	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#513	80	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#521	77	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#506	81	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#426	103	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#439	100	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#537	79	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#525	82	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#547	77	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#519	80	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#483	91	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#575	70	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#482	84	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#455	92	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#427	99	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#429	95	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#398	105	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#473	78	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#409	90	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#441	78	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#367	93	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#455	67	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#557	49	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#515	56	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#530	51	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#689	35	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#491	56	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#458	8	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#586	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#579	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#585	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#660	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#624	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #367, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 105 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 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.

Alivia · #248, 28y
Alix · #238, 29y
Aliyaan · #1984, 18y
Aliyah · #174, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Gracie-Mae · #368, 25y
Clay · #365, 30y
Elif · #369, 30y
Kaila · #365, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Kaylah · #367, 29y
Asad · #366, 29y
Karly · #366, 22y
Mayah · #366, 24y

Aliya was ranked #367 in England and Wales · Girls in 2002. 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.

Aliya 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 Aliya without appearing here.

Aliya moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #557 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #455 and #871.
Liv Compare
In 2023 they stood at #727 and #625 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #556 and #898.
Mina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #727 and #727 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #556 and #898.
Cassandra Compare
In 2024 they stood at #556 and #441 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2025 that had become #544 and #885.

Moved ahead of Aliya

Maddison Compare
In 2008 they stood at #624 and #842 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2009 that had become #893 and #379.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #482 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #575 and #261.
Orla Compare
In 1996 they stood at #491 and #549 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #689 and #396.
Maeve Compare
In 2018 they stood at #426 and #507 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #506 and #218.

Moved the same way as Aliya

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Aliya went from #367 to #565 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #367 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aliya

Aliya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aliya across 3 official records

Aliya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aliya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Aliya and the names beside it

Aliya moved ahead of

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Aliya at a glance

Aliya across 3 official records

Aliya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Aliya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Aliya

Aliya and the names beside it

Aliya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Aliya

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