Girls' name · since 2016
Iyali
Since 2016, U.S. Social Security records show 46 babies named Iyali, peaking in 2024. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #35,937 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,954 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 46
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
46 babies have been named Iyali since 2016, making it today's #12954 girls' name.
Iyali has 46 recorded births among girls since 2016, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12954 as of the latest data, more common than 25% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.
- #35,937 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #12,954 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 46 born since 2016
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Iyali ranks #35,937 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,954 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 46 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,937 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #12,954 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 46
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Iyali's 46 recorded births place it above 50.1% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Iyali compares
46 15th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Iyali's all-time total is 88% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Iyali | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 46 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Iyali's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Iyali's full recorded timeline at 2022, 65% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 35% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2016, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Iyali popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Iyali by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (35 births, 76% of the file).
2020s was Iyali's strongest decade.
35 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 76% of all-time use.
Iyali births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 11
2010s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
35 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 35 births (76% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Iyali: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~9 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Iyali draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.