In 2025, 44 US girls were named Zaryah, making it the 3,515th most common girls’ name of the year, up 522 places from #4,037 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 37 girls named Zaryah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,762, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #3,764 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaryah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 6 babies. In all, 999 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 511 babies named Zaryah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 460 US girls were named Zaryah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Zariyah (7,569 babies since 1880).