Zaliyah
#1,340 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaliyah has been given to 1,216 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #1,340 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 166 recorded.
Babies named Zaliyah, 2025
1 in 20,000
Zaliyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zaliyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 20,000
- 166 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 9,680
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,340
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 13,844 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaliyah 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 13,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaliyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaliyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaliyah was born before 2018 — so the typical Zaliyah is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 45.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,216
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 45.5% of all recorded uses (553).
Is Zaliyah 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
- +877
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,341
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,308
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.86×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (166)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.4% average annual change
Spellings of Zaliyah
Zaliyah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 21.1% against Zaliyah's 0.23%.
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 Zaliyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Zaliyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 25,261 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 12,500
- 2Texas1 in 14,286
- 3North Carolina1 in 20,000
- 4Florida1 in 25,000
- 5Kansas1 in 25,000
- 6Tennessee1 in 25,000
- 7California1 in 33,333
- 8Louisiana1 in 33,333
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.
Zaliyah around the world
Where Zaliyah 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 & Wales2020–2025#4,201in 2025
- Canada2016–2016#3,204in 2016
- South Australia2007–2007#803in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zaliyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zaliyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zaliyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.