Zayah

#3,459 for girls in 2025, 44 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 97.0% of the time

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Peak · girls
#2,638
2021 · 65 births
Debut · girls
2001
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
835
since 2001

Zayah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zayah has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202018girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025#3,45944—
2024#2,77561—
2023#3,32948#12,2395
2022#3,17151—
2021#2,63865#12,1465
2020#3,09151—
2019#3,55243—
2018#3,05053—
2017#2,71363—
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2013#3,00555#12,1365
2012#2,90159—
2011#7,11817—
2010#9,23112#10,7666
2009#11,4599—
2008#10,08411#12,5535
2007#8,52014—
2006#9,90111—
2005#10,9219—
2004#16,0995—
2003#15,7845—
2002#10,2469—
2001#9,35110—
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First appearance
2001

The first year at least five girls were named Zayah! It came in at #9,351, and was given to 10 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zayah is popular in 2018

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #1,852 for girls · 12 births · 1 in 15,789 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Zayah, so not publishedHITexas: #2,786 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 26,486 girlsTXFlorida: #1,453 for girls · 8 births · 1 in 10,636 girlsFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Florida#1,453 · 1 in 10,636
  2. California#1,852 · 1 in 15,789
  3. Texas#2,786 · 1 in 26,486

Best ever in a state: #1,309 in Illinois, 2021.

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See more about Zayah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 684 spots since 2024 (#2,775 → #3,459)
  • 368 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #3,459)
  • 246 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #3,459)
Rise & fade · girls
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2001
  • Peaked 2021 at #2,638 (65 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 25,244
  • Highest: 1 in 25,244 girls born in 2021 were named Zayah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 36,529 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 51.7% of all girls named Zayah (432) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s83#8,520 (2007)#11,374
2010s432#2,713 (2017)#4,229
2020s320#2,638 (2021)#3,077

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.

Zayah in 2018

girls
#3,050
53 births · 1 in 32,096 girls

Top girls' names in 2018

  1. #1Emma18,824
  2. #2Olivia18,061
  3. #3Ava15,034
  4. #4Isabella14,575
  5. #5Sophia14,013
  6. #6Charlotte13,038
  7. #7Mia12,742
  8. #8Amelia12,405
  9. #9Harper10,646
  10. #10Evelyn10,433
  11. #3,050Zayah53
More about 2018

girls

1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 32,096 of them was named Zayah, which outranked 83.2% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zayah
  1. #3,004Suzanne54
  2. #3,004Tyra54
  3. #3,004Xenia54
  4. #3,050Zayah53
  5. #3,050Adia53
  6. #3,050Alaynah53
  7. #3,050Aleida53
  8. #3,107Abigayle52
  9. #3,107Acelyn52
  10. #3,107Alaa52

Tied with 56 names at #3,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. ↑ 680Meghan#1,387 → #707
  2. ↑ 567Dior#1,360 → #793
  3. ↑ 367Palmer#1,042 → #675
  4. ↑ 361Adalee#1,217 → #856
  5. ↑ 346Oaklynn#888 → #542
Fallers
  1. ↓ 334Audrina#847 → #1,181
  2. ↓ 234Courtney#952 → #1,186
  3. ↓ 232Marjorie#938 → #1,170
  4. ↓ 228Anabelle#969 → #1,197
  5. ↓ 225Angelique#799 → #1,024

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2018 →