Zaliyah
- #1,339 for girls in 2025, 166 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 166 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,216since 2001
Zaliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zaliyah has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,339 | 166 |
| 2024 | #2,203 | 86 |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,277 | 82 |
| 2021 | #2,085 | 91 |
| 2020 | #2,659 | 63 |
| 2019 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2017 | #3,247 | 49 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #3,595 | 43 |
| 2014 | #3,369 | 47 |
| 2013 | #3,042 | 54 |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 |
| 2010 | #3,961 | 38 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zaliyah! It came in at #15,352, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zaliyah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#578 · 1 in 2,362
- South Carolina#773 · 1 in 3,658
- Louisiana#776 · 1 in 3,274
- Arizona#818 · 1 in 4,031
- Colorado#907 · 1 in 4,665
Best ever in a state: #578 in Kansas, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kansas | #578 | 5 | 1 in 2,362 |
| South Carolina | #773 | 5 | 1 in 3,658 |
| Louisiana | #776 | 5 | 1 in 3,274 |
| Arizona | #818 | 7 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Colorado | #907 | 5 | 1 in 4,665 |
| Tennessee | #983 | 6 | 1 in 5,346 |
| Florida | #1,055 | 14 | 1 in 6,197 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,108 | 7 | 1 in 6,670 |
| Texas | #1,154 | 23 | 1 in 6,980 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| North Carolina | #1,281 | 6 | 1 in 7,747 |
| California | #1,323 | 18 | 1 in 8,985 |
| Georgia | #1,358 | 6 | 1 in 7,535 |
| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
| New York | #1,830 | 6 | 1 in 13,055 |
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See more about Zaliyah
- 1,320 spots since 2020 (#2,659 → #1,339)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2025 at #1,339 (166 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,682 girls born in 2025 were named Zaliyah (0.01%)
- 45.5% of all girls named Zaliyah (553) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2000s | 165 | #4,370 (2009) | #7,681 |
| 2010s | 498 | #2,962 (2018) | #3,260 |
| 2020s | 553 | #1,339 (2025) | #2,206 |
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.
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