Zaya
#1,309 for girls in 2025, 170 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 97.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 207 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,532since 1994
Zaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Zaya 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,309 | 170 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,420 | 157 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,164 | 207 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,279 | 187 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,337 | 166 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,412 | 155 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #1,436 | 155 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,386 | 162 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #1,210 | 198 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #1,307 | 183 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #2,138 | 89 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #1,736 | 120 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,587 | 135 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,744 | 118 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #9,265 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zaya! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zaya
- 111 spots since 2024 (#1,420 → #1,309)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#1,412 → #1,309)
- 829 spots since 2015 (#2,138 → #1,309)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2023 at #1,164 (207 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,752 girls born in 2023 were named Zaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,455 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 48.9% of all girls named Zaya (1,238) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 32 | #7,716 (1999) | #10,522 |
| 2000s | 220 | #5,113 (2005) | #5,749 |
| 2010s | 1,238 | #1,210 (2017) | #2,029 |
| 2020s | 1,042 | #1,164 (2023) | #1,320 |
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.
Zaya in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 47,542 of them was named Zaya, which outranked 79.6% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,916Tyonna38
- #3,916Yareni38
- #3,916Zamira38
- #3,999Zaya37
- #3,999Akilah37
- #3,999Alayiah37
- #3,999Alizah37
- #4,072Abbagail36
- #4,072Adelynne36
- #4,072Adryanna36
Tied with 72 names at #3,999; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 379,850 of them was named Zaya, which outranked 14.4% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,073 names at #12,287; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.