Zahava
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 39 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 848since 1973
Zahava over time
Rank among girls' names. Zahava has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,265 | 33 |
| 2024 | #3,758 | 40 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 |
| 2020 | #3,735 | 39 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
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| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
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| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zahava! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zahava is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,204 · 1 in 8,919
Best ever in a state: #615 in New Jersey, 2016.
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| New York | #1,204 | 11 | 1 in 8,919 |
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See more about Zahava
- 507 spots since 2024 (#3,758 → #4,265)
- 530 spots since 2020 (#3,735 → #4,265)
- 588 spots since 2015 (#4,853 → #4,265)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2020 at #3,735 (39 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 40,505 girls born in 2024 were named Zahava (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,735 in 2020, was only 1 in 41,450 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.3% of all girls named Zahava (265) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 30 | #6,892 (1977) | #8,258 |
| 1980s | 65 | #5,544 (1980) | #8,211 |
| 1990s | 103 | #6,360 (1998) | #7,605 |
| 2000s | 179 | #5,377 (2007) | #6,927 |
| 2010s | 265 | #3,923 (2019) | #5,237 |
| 2020s | 206 | #3,735 (2020) | #4,200 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zahava in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 83,052 of them was named Zahava, which outranked 70.6% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #5,419Zahava22
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Tied with 166 names at #5,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.