Girls' name · since 2019
Zaleya
Since 2019, U.S. Social Security records show 48 babies named Zaleya, peaking in 2024. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #35,590 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,831 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 48
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zaleya currently ranks #10831 among girls' names in America, with 48 babies recorded since 2019.
Zaleya has 48 recorded births among girls since 2019, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10831 as of the latest data, more common than 37% 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 2019 to 2025.
- #35,590 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,831 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 48 born since 2019
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zaleya ranks #35,590 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,831 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 48 born since 2019, peaking in the 2020s.
- #35,590 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,831 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 48
- born since 2019
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zaleya's 48 recorded births place it above 50.79% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zaleya compares
48 15th 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
Zaleya's all-time total is 87% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zaleya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 48 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zaleya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Zaleya's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 63% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 37%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2019, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Zaleya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Zaleya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (43 births, 90% of the file).
2020s was Zaleya's strongest decade.
43 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 90% of all-time use.
Zaleya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
43 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 43 births (90% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Zaleya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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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, 2019–2025 (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 Zaleya 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.