Meaning not yet researched.
Zaliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 166 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,340 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Zaliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,340 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zaliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 166 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,340 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 166 (2025).
In 2025, 166 US girls were named Zaliyah, making it the 1,340th most common girls’ name of the year, up 877 places from #2,217 in 2024. That is 80 more than the 86 girls named Zaliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,340, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 166. For comparison, it was #3,649 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaliyah in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 5 babies. In all, 1,216 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 553 babies named Zaliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 767 US girls were named Zaliyah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 166. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,682 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaliyah ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #689 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Saliyah, Zalia and Zaliah are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Saliyah (551), Zalia (482), Zaliah (178), Zaliya (93), Zaleyah (87), Salihah (75), Zaaliyah (63), Zaleya (48), Zayliah (35), Saaliyah (33), Zaleiah (10), Zalya (6), 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 Zaliyah 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 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #689 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #901 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #904 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #914 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,050 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,109 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,123 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,189 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,227 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,358 | #3,926 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,372 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,431 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,526 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,630 | — |
| New York | 6 | #2,064 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 166 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 2022 | 82 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 2018 | 55 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 2015 | 43 | #3,649 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,416 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,022 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,475 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,276 | — | — |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,546 | — | — |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,833 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,491 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,211 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,496 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,098 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,944 | — | — |
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).