Taliyah
Taliyah was given to 203 girls in 2025, #1,143 among girls’ names; 8,900 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,820 Americans named Taliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taliyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Taliyah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taliyah?
#1,143 among girls’ names, 2025
Taliyah fell from #796 in 2015 to #1,143 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.13 per 1,000.
458 babies in 2008, the peak
Taliyah peaked in 2008, when 458 girls were given it, #670 among girls’ names. The 203 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 203 | #1,143 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 216 | #1,124 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,106 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 214 | #1,142 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 230 | #1,087 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 249 | #1,014 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 261 | #993 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 268 | #986 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 295 | #909 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 352 | #811 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 355 | #796 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 356 | #789 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 333 | #811 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 390 | #715 | 0.22 |
| 2011 | 388 | #714 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 414 | #690 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 452 | #656 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 458 | #670 | 0.24 |
| 2007 | 400 | #729 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 379 | #738 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 366 | #738 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 406 | #679 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 394 | #672 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 366 | #685 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 235 | #943 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 158 | #1,241 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 116 | #1,489 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 145 | #1,256 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,603 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,094 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,311 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taliyah 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 Taliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taliyah, and how old are they?
8,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,900 Americans ever recorded as Taliyah. The median Taliyah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 5,726 people named Taliyah (5,720 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,570 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 175 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,530 |
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 Taliyah born?
The states with the most babies named Taliyah are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,311 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 17 | #952 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 16 | #674 | 2.0× |
| California | 10 | #2,075 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 9 | #1,001 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #805 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,028 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #595 | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 8 | #924 | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 8 | #611 | 2.2× |
Where Taliyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taliyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1994 it was given 2.8 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 Taliyah 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 55,938 babies since 1880, Taliyah is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 203 of their 1,703 babies (12%), again the second 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 Taliyah
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 Taliyah and names like it
- Compare Taliyah and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaliyah peaked in 2008.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taliyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Taliyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taliyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.