Jaliah
Jaliah was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,626 among girls’ names; 1,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Jaliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaliah?
#5,626 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaliah fell from #3,451 in 2015 to #5,626 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 13.7 per million.
77 babies in 2011, the peak
Jaliah peaked in 2011, when 77 girls were given it, #2,398 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,626 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,325 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,402 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,966 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,302 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,861 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,634 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,029 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,363 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,382 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,451 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,612 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,663 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,141 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,398 | 43.8 |
| 2010 | 75 | #2,487 | 42.2 |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,517 | 40.8 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,240 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,624 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,819 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,540 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,287 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,550 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,322 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,602 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,792 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,751 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,896 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,286 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,886 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,720 | 6.3 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,392 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaliah has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaliah, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,176 Americans ever recorded as Jaliah. The median Jaliah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Jaliah (812 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,003 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 32 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 672 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 461 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jaliah born?
The states with the most babies named Jaliah are Florida, Georgia and Alabama, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 102 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 21 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 21 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 19 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 16 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jaliah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaliah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1993 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jaliah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jaliah?
Jaliah is a less common spelling of Jaliyah: SSA has recorded 1,176 Jaliah and 12,277 Jaliyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 35,002 babies since 1880, Jaliah is the eighth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 738 babies (3.0%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jaliah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jaliah and names like it
- Compare Jaliah and JaliyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaliah peaked in 2011.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jaliah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaliah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.