Girls' name · since 2005
Salayah
Since 2005, U.S. Social Security records show 210 babies named Salayah, peaking in 2024. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #19,318 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,071 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 210
- born since 2005
- 2020s
- peak decade
Salayah currently ranks #5071 among girls' names in America, with 210 babies recorded since 2005.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Salayah has been recorded 210 times among girls since 2005, currently ranked #5071 nationally and more common than 71% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2005 to 2025.
- #19,318 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,071 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 210 born since 2005
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Salayah ranks #19,318 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,071 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 210 born since 2005, peaking in the 2020s.
- #19,318 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,071 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 210
- born since 2005
- 2020s
- peak decade
Salayah's 210 recorded births place it above 73.27% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Salayah compares
210 38th 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
Salayah's all-time total is 44% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Salayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 210 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 26 | 21 | 19,840 |
Salayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Salayah splits its recorded history at 2016: 66% of all births land in the more recent half, 34% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2010 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 26 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Salayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 26
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Salayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (98 births, 47% of the file).
2020s was Salayah's strongest decade.
98 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.
Salayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 26
2000s
26 births
- 2010s
2010s
86 births
- 2020s
2020s
98 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 98 births (47% of all-time use).
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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, 2005–2025 (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 Salayah 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.