Aaliyah is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Aaliyah is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #50 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Aaliyah, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 100,639 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Aaliyah. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
The given name Aaliyah with the emphasis on i is a variant of Aliya and comes from Arabic. It means ‘the high, the excellent, the exalted’. With the stress on the last ‘a’ the name is to be read new Hebrew and means among other things ‘ascent’, ‘pilgrimage’ or denotes the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Aaliyah (1979 - 2001)
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American R&B singer and actress. She made her breakthrough with 'Try Again', the theme song for the film 'Romeo Must Die' (2000), in which she played the female lead. Two years later, she played Queen Akasha in 'Queen of the Damned' (2002). With over 30 million records sold worldwide, she is one of the most successful R&B singers of the last 30 years. She died in a plane crash at the age of 22.
Aliyah (*1994)
Aliyah is the stage name of a Canadian professional wrestler. She first appeared in 2015 and has since wrestled for several professional wrestling companies, including WWE and NXT. She is also a regular on WWE's SmackDown. Aliyah is known for her athleticism and charisma in the ring and has won several titles and awards. For example, she won the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with Raquel Gonzᬥz in 2022.
The name Aaliyah may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Aaliyah is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 436 women in Nevada is called Aaliyah. In total, that’s 1,025 women who feel addressed when the name Aaliyah is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #107 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Aaliyah as the answer a total of 100,633 times. This places Aaliyah at #330 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Aaliyah as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With seven letters, the name Aaliyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Aaliyah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aaliyah, you can simply say:
Apple
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aaliyah
Aaliyah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
L
I
Y
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
L
I
Y
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aaliyah sounds like this:
