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Taliyah

#1,143 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Taliyah has been given to 8,900 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,143 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 458 recorded.

Babies named Taliyah, 2025

1 in 16,300

Taliyah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taliyah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taliyah means

Taliyah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Taliyah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,900 girls were recorded with the name Taliyah between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 458 in 2008; its best national rank was #656 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,014 in 2020 to #1,143 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #796 in 2015 to #1,143 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 Taliyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,300
203 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,920
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,143
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,321 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taliyah 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,321 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taliyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taliyah was born before 2010 — so the typical Taliyah is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,900
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (3,614).

Is Taliyah 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
−19
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−129
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−347
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.3%
Peak was 2008 (458)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
6.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#656
2009

Spellings of Taliyah

Taliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 20.1% against Taliyah's 1.6%.

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 Taliyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Taliyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,250 girls, against 1 in 5,770 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

280 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,250
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 1,961
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 2,174
  4. 4Alabama1 in 2,500
  5. 5Georgia1 in 2,500
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 2,703
  7. 7Florida1 in 3,125
  8. 8Maryland1 in 3,571

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, Taliyah is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Taliyah around the world

Where Taliyah 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
    1998–2025
    #997
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    2009–2025
    #3,419
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,349
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Taliyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,143
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 129
Best rank ever
#656
2009
Peak year
2008
458 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,900
Count in 2025
203

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

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Names with a curve like Taliyah

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

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Sibling names for Taliyah

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

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