Meaning not yet researched.
Jaliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 324 in 2025. Its best rank was #442 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #442 in 2011; #838 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#838 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #442.
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Jaliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 324 girls in 2025. Peak: #442 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 704 (2011).
In 2025, 324 US girls were named Jaliyah, making it the 838th most common girls’ name of the year, down 37 places from #801 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 351 girls named Jaliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #442, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 704. For comparison, it was #584 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaliyah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 36 babies. In all, 12,277 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,767 babies named Jaliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,757 US girls were named Jaliyah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 570. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaliyah ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #358 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jaleah (3,727 babies since 1880), Jalia (1,614 babies since 1880) and Jaliah (1,176 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaliya, Jaleyah and Jaaliyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jaliya (654), Jaleyah (606), Jaaliyah (411), Jaleya (321), Jayliah (247), Jahliyah (243), Jaleeyah (204), Jaleiah (178), Jaleeah (162), Jalyiah (161), Jalyah (104), Jaleiyah (97), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jaliyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 8 | #358 | #100 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #426 | #282 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #449 | #246 |
| Florida | 38 | #483 | #306 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #502 | #529 |
| Alabama | 9 | #546 | #248 |
| Georgia | 19 | #572 | #280 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #580 | #370 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #588 | #528 |
| Illinois | 16 | #605 | #305 |
| Michigan | 13 | #613 | #509 |
| New York | 26 | #643 | #672 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #655 | #704 |
| Virginia | 11 | #676 | #745 |
| Maryland | 6 | #775 | #469 |
| Texas | 30 | #965 | #638 |
| Missouri | 5 | #986 | #704 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,052 | #1,160 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,083 | #814 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,560 | #605 |
| California | 13 | #1,691 | #1,218 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 324 | #838 | — | — |
| 2024 | 351 | #801 | — | — |
| 2023 | 453 | #646 | — | — |
| 2022 | 491 | #607 | — | — |
| 2021 | 523 | #578 | — | — |
| 2020 | 570 | #529 | — | — |
| 2019 | 567 | #541 | — | — |
| 2018 | 499 | #605 | — | — |
| 2017 | 483 | #622 | — | — |
| 2016 | 496 | #607 | — | — |
| 2015 | 518 | #584 | — | — |
| 2014 | 587 | #528 | — | — |
| 2013 | 606 | #494 | — | — |
| 2012 | 671 | #465 | — | — |
| 2011 | 704 | #442 | — | — |
| 2010 | 636 | #475 | — | — |
| 2009 | 627 | #490 | — | — |
| 2008 | 564 | #546 | — | — |
| 2007 | 401 | #727 | — | — |
| 2006 | 358 | #770 | — | — |
| 2005 | 323 | #800 | — | — |
| 2004 | 322 | #793 | — | — |
| 2003 | 275 | #879 | — | — |
| 2002 | 284 | #820 | — | — |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,182 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).