Zaliyah
Zaliyah was given to 166 girls in 2025, #1,340 among girls’ names; 1,216 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Zaliyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaliyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaliyah?
#1,340 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaliyah rose from #3,648 in 2015 to #1,340 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.10 per 1,000.
166 babies in 2025, the peak
Zaliyah peaked in 2025, when 166 girls were given it, #1,340 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 86 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 166 | #1,340 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,217 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,703 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 82 | #2,294 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,101 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,681 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,998 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 55 | #3,002 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,303 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,059 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,648 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,421 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,074 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,415 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,130 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 38 | #4,021 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,474 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,274 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,542 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,831 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,486 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,206 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,491 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,092 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,937 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaliyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaliyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaliyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaliyah, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,216 Americans ever recorded as Zaliyah. The median Zaliyah alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 475 people named Zaliyah (473 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 674 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 302 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 906 |
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 Zaliyah born?
The states with the most babies named Zaliyah are Texas, California and Florida, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,189 | 1.1× |
| California | 18 | #1,358 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,109 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 7 | #904 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,227 | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,526 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,431 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #2,064 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,123 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,372 | 0.4× |
Where Zaliyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaliyah is most over-represented in Texas: since 2001 it was given 1.1 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 Zaliyah 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 3,924 babies since 1880, Zaliyah is the most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 166 of their 388 babies (43%), 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 Zaliyah
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 Zaliyah and names like it
- Compare Zaliyah and ZalayahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaliyah peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaliyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zaliyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaliyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.