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Waliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #9,511 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #9,511 in 2021; #13,109 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Waliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,109 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #9,511.
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Waliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #9,511 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 11 (2021).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Waliyah, making it the 13,109th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #9,511, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 11. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waliyah in 4 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 5 babies. In all, 28 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 18 babies named Waliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23 US girls were named Waliyah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).