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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 26,633 of them was named Zia, which outranked 87.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,584October72
- #2,584Sommer72
- #2,584Story72
- #2,609Zia71
- #2,609Aidyn71
- #2,609Ailey71
- #2,609Anabell71
- #2,630Alayla70
- #2,630Amal70
- #2,630Arihanna70
Tied with 20 names at #2,609; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 136,010 of them was named Zia, which outranked 60.6% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,487Ziaire16
- #5,487Zian16
- #5,487Zuhayr16
- #5,767Zia15
- #5,767Aalijah15
- #5,767Abdou15
- #5,767Abu15
- #6,070Abdalla14
- #6,070Abdi14
- #6,070Aboubacar14
Tied with 302 names at #5,767; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.