Saliyah
Saliyah was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,967 among girls’ names; 551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saliyah?
#4,967 among girls’ names, 2025
Saliyah rose from #5,270 in 2015 to #4,967 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.6 to 16.8 per million.
36 babies in 2010, the peak
Saliyah peaked in 2010, when 36 girls were given it, #4,167 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,967 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,418 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,981 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,956 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,911 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,890 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,653 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,083 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,494 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,106 | 15.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,270 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,752 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,861 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,942 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,511 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,167 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,509 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,920 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,495 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,159 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,426 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,162 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,002 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,974 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,960 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,075 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,072 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,626 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saliyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saliyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 547 Americans named Saliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 339 people named Saliyah (338 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,838 babies since 1880, Saliyah is the most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 95 babies (28%), 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 Saliyah
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 Saliyah and names like it
- Compare Saliyah and SalihaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSaliyah peaked in 2010.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saliyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Saliyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saliyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.