Jaaliyah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Jaaliyah by the numbers
Jaaliyah was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 22 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Jaaliyah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jaaliyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Jaaliyah
Names that are said the same way as Jaaliyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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