Zalayah Girl
How popular is Zalayah?
#2,514 girl name in 2025
70 baby girls were named Zalayah in the US in 2025, making it the 2514th most popular girl name.
Zalayah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,514 for girls (▼ 152 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 70 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+119% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,402 in 2015, #3,141 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (83 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2,253 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 2002 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zalayah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zalayah family of names ranked #1,200 for girls in 2025 (#1,324 the year before), with 150 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zalayah | 70 | 47% |
| Zalaya | 62 | 41% |
| Zalaia | 12 | 8% |
| Zalaiah | 6 | 4% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Zalayah is most popular
Babies named Zalayah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Georgia: 0.1 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Zalayah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zalayah
Questions
- Is Zalayah a boy or girl name?
- Zalayah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zalayah were girls.
- How popular is the name Zalayah?
- 70 baby girls were named Zalayah in the US in 2025, making it the 2514th most popular girl name.
- When was Zalayah most popular?
- Zalayah peaked in 2022, when 83 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2,253 in 2022.
- How many people are named Zalayah?
- 750 babies have been named Zalayah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 747 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 5.
- Where is Zalayah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zalayah was most common in Georgia, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.