Girls' name · since 2017
Telayah
Since 2017, U.S. Social Security records show 17 babies named Telayah, peaking in 2017. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #48,222 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,624 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 17
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Telayah is the #16624 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 17 recorded since 2017.
Telayah has 17 recorded births among girls since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16624 as of the latest data, more common than 4% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #48,222 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,624 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 17 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Telayah ranks #48,222 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,624 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 17 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #48,222 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,624 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 17
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Telayah's 17 recorded births place it above 33.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Telayah compares
17 6th 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
Telayah's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Telayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 17 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Telayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Telayah's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 59% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 41%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2017 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Telayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2017)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Telayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (10 births, 59% of the file).
2020s was Telayah's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 59% of all-time use.
Telayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
7 births
- 2020s
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 10 births (59% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Telayah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2017)
Similar record span (~8 yrs)
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, 2017–2025 (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 Telayah 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.