Meaning not yet researched.
Zariyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 448 in 2025. Its best rank was #593 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #593 in 2022; #645 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zariyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#645 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #593.
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Zariyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 448 girls in 2025. Peak: #593 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 505 (2022).
In 2025, 448 US girls were named Zariyah, making it the 645th most common girls’ name of the year, down 23 places from #622 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 481 girls named Zariyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #593, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 505. For comparison, it was #747 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zariyah in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 5 babies. In all, 7,569 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,642 babies named Zariyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,366 US girls were named Zariyah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 505. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,588 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zariyah ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #339 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zariah (14,313 babies since 1880), Zaria (11,277 babies since 1880), Sariah (9,594 babies since 1880) and Sariyah (6,500 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
No nicknames listed for Zariyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 33 | #339 | #354 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #402 | #459 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #440 | #419 |
| Ohio | 26 | #443 | #789 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #475 | #442 |
| Indiana | 15 | #480 | — |
| Tennessee | 16 | #496 | #382 |
| Maryland | 11 | #509 | #527 |
| Virginia | 15 | #540 | #589 |
| Florida | 30 | #597 | #623 |
| Texas | 52 | #614 | #807 |
| Michigan | 13 | #637 | #662 |
| Missouri | 9 | #638 | #946 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #660 | #688 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #683 | #566 |
| New York | 24 | #703 | #818 |
| Illinois | 14 | #708 | #634 |
| Alabama | 7 | #714 | #447 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #761 | #940 |
| California | 38 | #799 | #1,025 |
| Arizona | 8 | #816 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #862 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #871 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #938 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 448 | #645 | — | — |
| 2024 | 481 | #622 | — | — |
| 2023 | 461 | #636 | — | — |
| 2022 | 505 | #593 | — | — |
| 2021 | 476 | #626 | — | — |
| 2020 | 404 | #698 | — | — |
| 2019 | 385 | #737 | — | — |
| 2018 | 418 | #697 | — | — |
| 2017 | 391 | #731 | — | — |
| 2016 | 397 | #718 | — | — |
| 2015 | 378 | #747 | — | — |
| 2014 | 353 | #799 | — | — |
| 2013 | 348 | #783 | — | — |
| 2012 | 350 | #784 | — | — |
| 2011 | 315 | #840 | — | — |
| 2010 | 307 | #871 | — | — |
| 2009 | 244 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 2008 | 216 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 2007 | 188 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2006 | 142 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,977 | — | — |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,795 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,794 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,877 | — | — |
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).