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Jaliah

Gender
Girl
Say it
jah-LEE-uh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#5,553 for girls

Jaliah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).

Where does Jaliah come from?

Modern: spelling of Jalia; modern coinage, perhaps a variant of Jaliyah or Julia

Meaning borrowed from Jalia.

Is Jaliah a girl's or a boy's name?

Jaliah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jaliah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,553among girls
Babies in 2025
22about 1 in 73,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 24% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Jaliah, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,840th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 77 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

2025 had fewer girls named Jaliah than any year since 2000.

Half of all the girls named Jaliah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 77 in 20112025
Jaliah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202522#5,553
202433#4,293
202332#4,361
202227#4,904
202124#5,233
202037#3,840
201942#3,610
201836#4,000
201747#3,346
201633#4,344
201546#3,429
201443#3,583
201342#3,643
201253#3,133
201177#2,395
201075#2,476
200975#2,509
200852#3,221
200745#3,600
200640#3,794
200542#3,505
200446#3,261
200340#3,528
200229#4,276
200126#4,559
200019#5,700
199918#5,655
199817#5,794
199719#5,224
199616#5,766
199511#7,509
19940–
19936#11,773

Names like Jaliah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jaliah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jaliah, updated 20 October 2026.