Jaliyah
Jaliyah was given to 324 girls in 2025, #838 among girls’ names; 12,277 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Jaliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaliyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaliyah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaliyah?
#838 among girls’ names, 2025
Jaliyah fell from #584 in 2015 to #838 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.29 to 0.20 per 1,000.
704 babies in 2011, the peak
Jaliyah peaked in 2011, when 704 girls were given it, #442 among girls’ names. The 324 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 324 | #838 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 351 | #801 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 453 | #646 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 491 | #607 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 523 | #578 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 570 | #529 | 0.35 |
| 2019 | 567 | #541 | 0.34 |
| 2018 | 499 | #605 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 483 | #622 | 0.28 |
| 2016 | 496 | #607 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 518 | #584 | 0.29 |
| 2014 | 587 | #528 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 606 | #494 | 0.35 |
| 2012 | 671 | #465 | 0.38 |
| 2011 | 704 | #442 | 0.40 |
| 2010 | 636 | #475 | 0.36 |
| 2009 | 627 | #490 | 0.34 |
| 2008 | 564 | #546 | 0.30 |
| 2007 | 401 | #727 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 358 | #770 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 323 | #800 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 322 | #793 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 275 | #879 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 284 | #820 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,126 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,729 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,289 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,904 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 81 | #1,829 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,167 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,286 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,177 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaliyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jaliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaliyah, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,277 Americans ever recorded as Jaliyah. The median Jaliyah alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 7,034 people named Jaliyah (7,012 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 129 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,430 |
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 Jaliyah born?
The states with the most babies named Jaliyah are Florida, Texas and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 38 | #483 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 30 | #965 | 0.8× |
| New York | 26 | #643 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 19 | #572 | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 18 | #588 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 16 | #605 | 1.5× |
| California | 13 | #1,691 | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #580 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 13 | #613 | 0.7× |
| South Carolina | 12 | #426 | 2.0× |
Where Jaliyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaliyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1994 it was given 3.8 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 Jaliyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,854 babies since 1880, Jaliyah is the most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 324 of their 616 babies (53%), again the most given.
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 Jaliyah
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 Jaliyah and names like it
- Compare Jaliyah and JaleahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJaliyah peaked in 2011.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaliyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jaliyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jaliyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.