Meaning not yet researched.
Naliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,887 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,887 in 2024; #2,529 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Naliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,529 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,887.
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Naliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,887 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 106 (2024).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Naliyah, making it the 2,529th most common girls’ name of the year, down 642 places from #1,887 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 106 girls named Naliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,887, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 106. For comparison, it was #3,169 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Naliyah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 8 babies. In all, 1,332 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 550 babies named Naliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 588 US girls were named Naliyah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Naliyah ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,177 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Naliah, Naliya and Naleyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Naliah (357), Naliya (180), Naleyah (142), Naaliyah (30), Nahliyah (18), Naleiah (18), Nalyah (17).
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 Naliyah 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 6 | #1,177 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,648 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,228 | #3,809 |
| New York | 5 | #2,319 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,654 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 2023 | 56 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,765 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,535 | — | — |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,383 | — | — |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 2015 | 53 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,958 | — | — |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,235 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,331 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,629 | — | — |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,156 | — | — |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,010 | — | — |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,575 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,739 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,075 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,826 | — | — |
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).