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
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 65 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 835since 2001
Zayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Zayah has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #3,459 | 44 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,775 | 61 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #3,171 | 51 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,638 | 65 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #3,091 | 51 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,552 | 43 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,713 | 63 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,464 | 45 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,549 | 44 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #2,901 | 59 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | — | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | — | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | — | |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | — | |
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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.
See more about Zayah
- 684 spots since 2024 (#2,775 → #3,459)
- 368 spots since 2020 (#3,091 → #3,459)
- 246 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #3,459)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2021 at #2,638 (65 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 51.7% of all girls named Zayah (432) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 83 | #8,520 (2007) | #11,374 |
| 2010s | 432 | #2,713 (2017) | #4,229 |
| 2020s | 320 | #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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 25,244 of them was named Zayah, which outranked 85.1% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,608Rey66
- #2,608Tamar66
- #2,608Zamiyah66
- #2,638Zayah65
- #2,638Acacia65
- #2,638Adalind65
- #2,638Alyana65
- #2,674Afton64
- #2,674Alayiah64
- #2,674Alyanna64
Tied with 35 names at #2,638; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 349,896 of them was named Zayah, which outranked 13.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,950 names at #12,146; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.