In 2025, 689 US girls were named Zariah, making it the 450th most common girls’ name of the year, down 14 places from #436 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 710 girls named Zariah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #407, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 750. For comparison, it was #506 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zariah in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 9 babies. In all, 14,313 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,532 babies named Zariah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,882 US girls were named Zariah; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 750. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,333 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zariah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #142 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zaria (11,277 babies since 1880), Sariah (9,594 babies since 1880), Zariyah (7,569 babies since 1880) and Sariyah (6,500 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zarya, Saryah and Zarria are summarised on this page.