Girl

Zariah

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#450
689 girls
2015
#506
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Zariah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 689 in 2025. Its best rank was #407 in 2023.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #407 in 2023; #450 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Zariah in 2025 were girls.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#450 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #407.

Babies in 2025
701
Since 1880
14,313
Years on record
34

Babies named Zariah, every year since 1880

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Girls

Zariah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 689 girls in 2025. Peak: #407 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 750 (2023).

About the name Zariah

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.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Zarya (667), Saryah (634), Zarria (604), Zarriah (454), Zaryiah (367), Saryiah (237), Zahriyah (110), Zarie (109), Zaryia (101), Zahriah (97), Zarea (84), Zauria (81), and more.

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Zariah in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Zariah by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New Mexico11#142—
Oklahoma15#295#469
Connecticut11#297#578
Kentucky14#330#627
South Carolina16#331#877
Mississippi9#340#418
Arizona20#356#605
Georgia31#363#252
West Virginia5#372—
Florida50#374#379
Arkansas9#375#313
Iowa9#389—
Maryland14#399#491
Pennsylvania28#401#627
Indiana17#417#575
Louisiana11#424#527
Colorado14#427#381
Alabama12#435#489
North Carolina26#441#360
Texas76#443#443
Michigan19#456#585
Ohio25#461#351
Virginia18#464#588
New York37#472#642
Massachusetts12#480#619
California59#555#966
Tennessee13#602#417
Nevada5#605—
Wisconsin8#611#515
Oregon6#617—
Missouri9#637#341
Minnesota8#657#666
Washington10#678#645
Utah5#831—
Illinois11#851#436
New Jersey7#1,034#615

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025689#45012#7,186
2024710#43617#5,654
2023750#40711#7,727
2022669#47513#6,816
2021584#52913#6,688
2020671#4605#14,019
2019652#4826#12,117
2018728#438——
2017709#4479#8,826
2016720#44910#8,140
2015625#506——
2014584#5329#8,770
2013571#523——
2012647#4756#12,252
2011630#471——
2010617#4919#8,787
2009607#5008#9,849
2008536#575——
2007497#6057#10,901
2006349#787——
2005264#939——
2004248#9698#8,918
2003219#1,048——
2002149#1,3176#10,651
2001180#1,160——
2000168#1,194——
1999110#1,547——
1998118#1,457——
199779#1,883——
199645#2,759——
19958#10,508——
199414#6,667——
19938#10,580——
19929#9,484——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).