Jaliyah

#838 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jaliyah has been given to 12,277 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #838 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 704 recorded.

Babies named Jaliyah, 2025

1 in 10,200

Jaliyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaliyah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaliyah means

Jaliyah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaliyah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,277 girls were recorded with the name Jaliyah between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 704 in 2011; its best national rank was #442 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #529 in 2020 to #838 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #584 in 2015 to #838 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jaliyah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 10,200; 324 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 4,960; 0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025: #838; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 7,093 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jaliyah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,093 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaliyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaliyah was born before 2013 — so the typical Jaliyah is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 47.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 96.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 12,277; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (5,767).

Is Jaliyah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −37; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −309; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −254; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.63×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 46.0%; Peak was 2011 (704)
Years since peak: 14; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 9.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #442; 2011

Spellings of Jaliyah

Jaliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 20.4% against Jaliyah's 2.3%.

Aaliyah20.4%109,971
Aliyah9.1%49,011
Aniyah5.8%31,207
Amiyah3.5%18,643
Maliyah2.8%15,359
Janiyah2.5%13,605
Kaliyah2.4%12,946
Jaliyah2.3%12,277

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jaliyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaliyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 578 girls, against 1 in 2,774 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 25,000).

4173 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 578
2Louisiana1 in 909
3Alabama1 in 1,149
4South Carolina1 in 1,220
5Florida1 in 1,389
6Georgia1 in 1,429
7Tennessee1 in 1,639
8North Carolina1 in 1,754

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Jaliyah is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 92% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Jaliyah around the world

Where Jaliyah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2010–2025
#5,927
in 2025
France
2009–2025
#2,753
in 2025
Canada
2006–2024
#2,256
in 2024
South Australia
2005–2005
#775
in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jaliyah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #838
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 309
Best rank ever: #442; 2011
Peak year: 2011; 704 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 12,277
Count in 2025: 324

Names similar to Jaliyah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Jalayah Jaleyah Jalaiyah Jaleeyah Jalissa Kaliyah Janiyah Jalisa Maliyah Taliyah Jalynn Zariyah Zaniyah Saniyah Jaleiyah Mariyah Sariyah Jaleah Jalyssa Alayah Kamiyah Samiyah Ariyah Malayah

Names with a curve like Jaliyah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jaliyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Aleena Madilynn Lilianna Amelie Jayleen Siena Yareli Kennedi Lilyana Maleah Jimena Jazlynn

Sibling names for Jaliyah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Raina Giuliana Sariah Brylee Giana Amelie Lilianna Aleah

For a brother

Brycen Alonso Braylen Emery Cason Braylon Dominik Kamden

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