Shaliyah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
10
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Shaliyah by the numbers

Shaliyah was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 59 babies in 2002, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Shaliyah

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 Shaliyah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Shamiyahof the levant; Syrian; feminine form of Shami20 in the US (2017)
  • Saliyahmoving; proceeding; a form of Saliyya19 in the US (2017)
  • Shakiyahthankful; grateful6 in the US (2017)
  • Shaniyah48 in the US (2017)
  • Shariyah18 in the US (2017)
  • Sariyahprincess; a variant of Seraiah or Sarah313 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Shaliyah

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