Fun Facts About the Name Alylah
- 203 babies named Alylah: U.S. records list 203 babies given the name Alylah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Alylah Mean?
Alylah is a feminine name used in English-speaking countries, most often understood as a respelling of Aliyah or Aaliyah. Those names come from Arabic ʿaliyyah (عَلِيَّة), the feminine of ʿaliyy (عَلِيّ), meaning "high" or "exalted." The root is ʿ-l-w, "to be high, to rise." Read this way, Alylah carries the sense "exalted."
The derivation is not documented in standard references, though. The medial y and the final h are English spelling habits rather than Arabic ones, and the same pattern appears in many modern respellings. A separate tradition is the Hebrew name Aliyah (עֲלִיָּה), "ascent" or "going up." Arabic and Hebrew are related Semitic languages, and their words for "high" and "go up" come from a shared root, but the two names reached English by different routes. The similar name Layla, from a different Arabic root meaning "night," is a distinct name.
Alylah Name History & Origins
Aliyah and Aaliyah are long-established names in the Arabic-speaking world, with Aaliyah the usual English transliteration. The form Alylah belongs to a group of modern English spellings that adjust the vowels and add a final h; the final h is an English convention, not an Arabic one. On this reading its background is the English-language history of the Aliyah/Aaliyah name rather than a separate line of descent, though the link cannot be confirmed.
The Hebrew aliyah has its own history in Jewish religious life: it names the honor of being called up to read from the Torah, and in the twentieth century it also came to mean immigration to the land of Israel. Whether a family using Alylah has this Hebrew term in mind, the Arabic name, or neither is not something the spelling settles.
How Popular is the Name Alylah?
Alylah has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #6,158 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,912 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2024 | #6,158 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 2023 | #8,080 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2022 | #7,000 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #6,425 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2020 | #7,230 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2019 | #7,370 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2018 | #9,185 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2017 | #8,321 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2016 | #8,429 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2015 | #9,522 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2014 | #9,562 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2013 | #11,068 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #9,739 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #10,492 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2009 | #17,455 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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