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Saliyah

Saliyah reached its high-water mark in 2010 at number 4,107, and has been recorded 551 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,878th. About 550 Saliyahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Saliyah

By the numbers

Total US births
551
Estimated living today
550
Median age today
12
Peak year
2010
Best rank
4,107th
Rank in 2025
4,878th
First recorded
1997

How old the living Saliyahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 551 babies given the name since 1997, about 550 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Saliyah is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2010

The most popular girls’ names the year Saliyah peaked:

All the names of 2010

Related names

Saliyah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.