Jahliyah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jahliyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 243 babies named Jahliyah between 1998 and 2023, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jahliyah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jahliyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jahliyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jahliyah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jahliyah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 243 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.