Jaliyah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 479 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
479
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#838
down from #800
UK popularity
#5927
3 babies

How Jaliyah has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#462#685#907201520202025#838

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#584
2016#607
2017#621
2018#605
2019#541
2020#531
2021#578
2022#610
2023#652
2024#800
2025#838

Jaliyah by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Jaliyah. In the US, 479 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 703 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Jaliyah

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.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jaliyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

Sounds like Jaliyah

Names that are said the same way as Jaliyah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

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