Zalayah
#2,514 for girls in 2025, 70 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 83 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 750since 2002
Zalayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zalayah has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #2,514 | 70 |
| 2024 | #2,362 | 77 |
| 2023 | #2,379 | 76 |
| 2022 | #2,253 | 83 |
| 2021 | #2,327 | 78 |
| 2020 | #3,141 | 50 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,559 | 43 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
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| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
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| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zalayah! It came in at #13,595, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zalayah is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#947 · 1 in 4,429
- Pennsylvania#1,124 · 1 in 6,854
- Ohio#1,127 · 1 in 6,804
- Michigan#1,217 · 1 in 7,410
- Florida#1,882 · 1 in 14,356
Best ever in a state: #831 in Wisconsin, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #947 | 5 | 1 in 4,429 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,124 | 7 | 1 in 6,854 |
| Ohio | #1,127 | 7 | 1 in 6,804 |
| Michigan | #1,217 | 5 | 1 in 7,410 |
| Florida | #1,882 | 6 | 1 in 14,356 |
| California | #2,064 | 10 | 1 in 17,377 |
| Texas | #2,423 | 8 | 1 in 20,347 |
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See more about Zalayah
- 152 spots since 2024 (#2,362 → #2,514)
- 627 spots since 2020 (#3,141 → #2,514)
- 1,889 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #2,514)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2022 at #2,253 (83 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,761 girls born in 2022 were named Zalayah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,961 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 57.9% of all girls named Zalayah (434) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 48 | #7,066 (2009) | #11,617 |
| 2010s | 268 | #3,552 (2017) | #5,723 |
| 2020s | 434 | #2,253 (2022) | #2,496 |
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.
Zalayah in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 19,761 of them was named Zalayah, which outranked 87.3% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,228Taylin84
- #2,228Yasmina84
- #2,228Zayda84
- #2,253Zalayah83
- #2,253Adora83
- #2,253Akshara83
- #2,253Aliyana83
- #2,277Caliyah82
- #2,277Carol82
- #2,277Dominique82
Tied with 23 names at #2,253; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.