Jaliyah
#838 for girls in 2025, 324 births
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 704 births
- Debut · girls
- 36 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 12,277since 1994
Jaliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Jaliyah has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #838 | 324 |
| 2024 | #801 | 351 |
| 2023 | #645 | 453 |
| 2022 | #607 | 491 |
| 2021 | #578 | 523 |
| 2020 | #529 | 570 |
| 2019 | #541 | 567 |
| 2018 | #605 | 499 |
| 2017 | #621 | 483 |
| 2016 | #607 | 496 |
| 2015 | #584 | 518 |
| 2014 | #526 | 587 |
| 2013 | #494 | 606 |
| 2012 | #465 | 671 |
| 2011 | #442 | 704 |
| 2010 | #475 | 636 |
| 2009 | #490 | 627 |
| 2008 | #545 | 564 |
| 2007 | #725 | 401 |
| 2006 | #768 | 358 |
| 2005 | #800 | 323 |
| 2004 | #793 | 322 |
| 2003 | #878 | 275 |
| 2002 | #818 | 284 |
| 2001 | #1,127 | 186 |
| 2000 | #1,730 | 101 |
| 1999 | #2,283 | 65 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 80 |
| 1997 | #1,828 | 81 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 |
| 1995 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1994 | #3,168 | 36 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jaliyah! It came in at #3,168, and was given to 36 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994, when fewer than 37 girls a year got the name.
Where Jaliyah is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#108 · 1 in 446
- Alabama#128 · 1 in 567
- Louisiana#205 · 1 in 879
- District of Columbia#230 · 1 in 640
- Georgia#256 · 1 in 1,174
Best ever in a state: #99 in Mississippi, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #108 | 28 | 1 in 446 |
| Alabama | #128 | 37 | 1 in 567 |
| Louisiana | #205 | 23 | 1 in 879 |
| District of Columbia | #230 | 5 | 1 in 640 |
| Georgia | #256 | 45 | 1 in 1,174 |
| North Carolina | #295 | 36 | 1 in 1,336 |
| South Carolina | #299 | 15 | 1 in 1,280 |
| Tennessee | #303 | 23 | 1 in 1,400 |
| Illinois | #333 | 41 | 1 in 1,615 |
| Virginia | #352 | 23 | 1 in 1,636 |
| Florida | #376 | 44 | 1 in 1,956 |
| Missouri | #439 | 14 | 1 in 2,102 |
| Maryland | #456 | 12 | 1 in 2,106 |
| Arkansas | #481 | 6 | 1 in 2,038 |
| Massachusetts | #501 | 10 | 1 in 2,722 |
| Wisconsin | #557 | 9 | 1 in 2,783 |
| Pennsylvania | #630 | 15 | 1 in 3,689 |
| Ohio | #676 | 14 | 1 in 4,028 |
| Kentucky | #708 | 5 | 1 in 4,046 |
| Indiana | #740 | 8 | 1 in 4,063 |
| Texas | #744 | 40 | 1 in 4,193 |
| Oklahoma | #761 | 5 | 1 in 3,488 |
| New Jersey | #767 | 9 | 1 in 4,365 |
| Michigan | #773 | 10 | 1 in 4,446 |
| Colorado | #799 | 6 | 1 in 4,083 |
| New York | #813 | 20 | 1 in 4,777 |
| Washington | #943 | 6 | 1 in 5,358 |
| California | #1,141 | 29 | 1 in 7,908 |
| Arizona | #1,209 | 5 | 1 in 7,299 |
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See more about Jaliyah
- 37 spots since 2024 (#801 → #838)
- 309 spots since 2020 (#529 → #838)
- 254 spots since 2015 (#584 → #838)
- Biggest jump: 309 spots in 2002 (#1,127 → #818)
- Biggest drop: 156 spots in 2024 (#645 → #801)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2011 at #442 (704 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,499 girls born in 2011 were named Jaliyah (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,961 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 47.0% of all girls named Jaliyah (5,767) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 357 | #1,828 (1997) | #2,435 |
| 2000s | 3,441 | #490 (2009) | #867 |
| 2010s | 5,767 | #442 (2011) | #536 |
| 2020s | 2,712 | #529 (2020) | #666 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jaliyah in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 3,353 of them was named Jaliyah, which outranked 97.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).