Meaning not yet researched.
Zalayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,275 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,275 in 2022; #2,541 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zalayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,541 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,275.
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Zalayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,275 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 83 (2022).
In 2025, 70 US girls were named Zalayah, making it the 2,541st most common girls’ name of the year, down 154 places from #2,387 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 77 girls named Zalayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,275, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #4,485 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zalayah in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 6 babies. In all, 750 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 434 babies named Zalayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 587 US girls were named Zalayah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,961 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zalayah ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,136 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zalaya, Zalaiyah and Zalaiya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zalaya (584), Zalaiyah (70), Zalaiya (53), Zalaia (36), Zalaiah (6), Zalayia (5), Zalayiah (5).
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 Zalayah 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,136 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,881 | — |
| California | 6 | #3,086 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,787 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 2023 | 76 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,918 | — | — |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,843 | — | — |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,485 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,440 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,025 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,568 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,711 | — | — |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,216 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,798 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,452 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,816 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,400 | — | — |
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).