first name
JALIYAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 7,034 people named Jaliyah, 77.9% reported their origin as Black, 10.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jaliyah peaked in 2011, when 704 babies got the name.
At least 12,277 babies have been given the name since 1994. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jaliyah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,035. The largest share of babies named Jaliyah, 52.7%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jaliyah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jaliyah has been most common in Florida (3.6×), Mississippi (3.3×), and Georgia (2.9×), and least common in Minnesota (0.26×).
11,183 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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