Zaleah

#5,716 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Zaleah has been given to 382 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #5,716 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Zaleah, 2025

1 in 151,000

Zaleah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,716
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaleah 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaleah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zaleahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaleah was born before 2017 — so the typical Zaleah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
382
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2010s — 51.6% of all recorded uses (197).

Is Zaleah 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
−114
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−720
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+310
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.5%
Peak was 2021 (27)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,951
2021

Spellings of Zaleah

Zaleah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 65.1% against Zaleah's 0.10%.

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 Zaleah is used

Across 1910–2025, Zaleah was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 988,279 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Zaleah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zaleah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,716
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 720
Best rank ever
#4,951
2021
Peak year
2021
27 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
382
Count in 2025
22

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Sibling names for Zaleah

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