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Baby name
Aaliyah
Girl
Origin of the name
Aaliyah has two possible origins: the Arabic Aliya, “high, exalted,” and the Hebrew aliyah, “ascent.” The singer Aaliyah made it known in the 1990s.
Rising name
109,971births since 1880
2010sgeneration
No. 36rank at its peak, in 2012
Where babies named Aaliyah are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Aaliyah is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Aaliyah is most common in New Mexico (2.1 times), Mississippi (1.7) and Nevada (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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