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Alijah

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9% girls / 91% boys

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Rising name

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2021 was its best year: 762 births, or 1 baby in 4,449. The momentum is recent: births are up 17% over the last five years, compared with the decade before. In 2025, it ranked No. 469. 41% of all babies named Alijah since 1880 were born in the 2010s.
14,231births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 408rank at its peak, in 2021

Where babies named Alijah are born

2021

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The darker the blue, the more common Alijah is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Alijah is most common in Mississippi (2 times), Louisiana (1.8) and Virginia (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
1980s0%100%
1990s33%67%
2000s14%86%
2010s7%93%
2020s4%96%