Zia
#1,467 for girls in 2025, 146 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 90.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 200 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,228since 1976
Zia over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,467 | 146 | #7,194 | 11 |
| 2024 | #1,191 | 200 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #1,255 | 183 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,304 | 181 | #4,570 | 22 |
| 2021 | #1,419 | 152 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #1,357 | 161 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #1,218 | 192 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #1,532 | 142 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #1,761 | 119 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #1,560 | 143 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #1,643 | 130 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #1,714 | 122 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #1,587 | 135 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #1,651 | 129 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #1,840 | 109 | #5,433 | 16 |
| 2010 | #2,313 | 82 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 95 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #2,609 | 71 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #2,059 | 99 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #2,375 | 79 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,081 | 51 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #2,840 | 54 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #3,595 | 37 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #2,924 | 49 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,777 | 52 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
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| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
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| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zia! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zia
- 276 spots since 2024 (#1,191 → #1,467)
- 110 spots since 2020 (#1,357 → #1,467)
- 176 spots since 2015 (#1,643 → #1,467)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2024 at #1,191 (200 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,101 girls born in 2024 were named Zia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,009 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.4% of all girls named Zia (1,303) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,284 (1976) | #9,284 |
| 1980s | 50 | #6,160 (1989) | #8,843 |
| 1990s | 201 | #3,443 (1999) | #5,410 |
| 2000s | 646 | #2,059 (2007) | #2,712 |
| 2010s | 1,303 | #1,218 (2019) | #1,682 |
| 2020s | 1,023 | #1,191 (2024) | #1,332 |
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.
Zia in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 33,836 of them was named Zia, which outranked 84.6% 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).
- #2,800Traci55
- #2,800Venus55
- #2,800Zakiyah55
- #2,840Zia54
- #2,840Alba54
- #2,840Aleya54
- #2,840Ameerah54
- #2,885Aleisha53
- #2,885Alyah53
- #2,885Anel53
Tied with 44 names at #2,840; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 282,193 of them was named Zia, which outranked 32.3% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,831Zyere8
- #7,831Zylan8
- #7,831Zymere8
- #8,643Zia7
- #8,643Aaric7
- #8,643Aarick7
- #8,643Aarion7
- #9,581Aahil6
- #9,581Aaliyah6
- #9,581Abdalla6
Tied with 937 names at #8,643; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.