Waliyah
#13,105 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Waliyah has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #13,105 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Waliyah, 2025
1 in 474,000
Waliyah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Waliyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,105
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Waliyah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Waliyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Waliyah was born before 2021 — so the typical Waliyah is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 64.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Waliyah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 63.6%
- Peak was 2021 (11)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Waliyah
Waliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 22.5% against Waliyah's <0.01%.
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.
Waliyah around the world
Where Waliyah 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 & Wales2006–2023#5,688in 2023
- France2019–2025#4,075in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Waliyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Waliyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Waliyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.