Zaira
#1,080 for girls in 2025, 224 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 224 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,986since 1969
Zaira over time
Rank among girls' names. Zaira has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,080 | 224 |
| 2024 | #1,223 | 192 |
| 2023 | #1,241 | 187 |
| 2022 | #1,246 | 193 |
| 2021 | #1,122 | 220 |
| 2020 | #1,571 | 134 |
| 2019 | #1,460 | 151 |
| 2018 | #1,656 | 127 |
| 2017 | #1,441 | 157 |
| 2016 | #1,942 | 103 |
| 2015 | #1,566 | 140 |
| 2014 | #1,714 | 122 |
| 2013 | #1,446 | 155 |
| 2012 | #1,774 | 116 |
| 2011 | #1,463 | 153 |
| 2010 | #1,372 | 169 |
| 2009 | #1,398 | 169 |
| 2008 | #1,415 | 168 |
| 2007 | #1,485 | 156 |
| 2006 | #1,403 | 161 |
| 2005 | #1,519 | 136 |
| 2004 | #1,520 | 132 |
| 2003 | #1,710 | 111 |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 |
| 2001 | #1,641 | 111 |
| 2000 | #1,705 | 103 |
| 1999 | #1,770 | 90 |
| 1998 | #1,789 | 87 |
| 1997 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 1996 | #1,826 | 80 |
| 1995 | #1,684 | 87 |
| 1994 | #1,952 | 72 |
| 1993 | #1,865 | 76 |
| 1992 | #1,507 | 104 |
| 1991 | #1,913 | 73 |
| 1990 | #1,862 | 76 |
| 1989 | #2,278 | 52 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zaira! It came in at #7,471, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zaira is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#665 · 1 in 3,764
- Colorado#921 · 1 in 4,768
- Texas#1,074 · 1 in 6,667
- North Carolina#1,091 · 1 in 6,631
- Illinois#1,117 · 1 in 7,027
Best ever in a state: #433 in Nevada, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #665 | 58 | 1 in 3,764 |
| Colorado | #921 | 5 | 1 in 4,768 |
| Texas | #1,074 | 25 | 1 in 6,667 |
| North Carolina | #1,091 | 7 | 1 in 6,631 |
| Illinois | #1,117 | 9 | 1 in 7,027 |
| Arizona | #1,153 | 5 | 1 in 6,704 |
| Florida | #1,224 | 10 | 1 in 8,233 |
| Georgia | #1,525 | 5 | 1 in 10,145 |
| New York | #1,992 | 6 | 1 in 15,796 |
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See more about Zaira
- 143 spots since 2024 (#1,223 → #1,080)
- 491 spots since 2020 (#1,571 → #1,080)
- 486 spots since 2015 (#1,566 → #1,080)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2025 at #1,080 (224 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,175 girls born in 2025 were named Zaira (0.01%)
- 27.9% of all girls named Zaira (1,393) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 58 | #5,092 (1979) | #7,271 |
| 1980s | 194 | #2,278 (1989) | #4,730 |
| 1990s | 841 | #1,507 (1992) | #1,781 |
| 2000s | 1,345 | #1,398 (2009) | #1,562 |
| 2010s | 1,393 | #1,372 (2010) | #1,583 |
| 2020s | 1,150 | #1,080 (2025) | #1,247 |
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.
Zaira in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 10,870 of them was named Zaira, which outranked 93.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,392Sheila170
- #1,392Sheyla170
- #1,392Soraya170
- #1,398Zaira169
- #1,398Audra169
- #1,398Josselyn169
- #1,398Malina169
- #1,405Aubriana168
- #1,405Ginger168
- #1,405Marcella168
Tied with 6 names at #1,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.