Meaning not yet researched.
Zaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 170 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,167 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,167 in 2023; #1,317 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,317 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,167.
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Zaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 170 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,167 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 207 (2023).
In 2025, 170 US girls were named Zaya, making it the 1,317th most common girls’ name of the year, up 107 places from #1,424 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 157 girls named Zaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,167, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 207. For comparison, it was #2,151 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zaya in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 2,590 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,272 babies named Zaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,740 US girls were named Zaya; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 207. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,455 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zaya ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #562 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Saya (1,305 babies since 1880), Zayah (861 babies since 1880) and Zaia (627 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaiya, Saiya and Zaiah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Zaiya (564), Saiya (469), Zaiah (407), Zai (318), Zay (308), Saia (227), Zaiyah (212), Zae (203), Zaha (122), Saaya (122), Zahi (115), Say (92), 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.
No nicknames listed for Zaya 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 10 | #562 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #832 | — |
| Florida | 18 | #911 | — |
| California | 26 | #1,051 | #2,149 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,210 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,405 | #3,781 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,530 | #1,492 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,620 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,631 | — |
| New York | 6 | #2,066 | #1,954 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2024 | 157 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2023 | 207 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 2022 | 187 | #1,283 | 5 | #14,313 |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,342 | 6 | #12,125 |
| 2020 | 155 | #1,417 | 8 | #9,544 |
| 2019 | 155 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,390 | 9 | #8,806 |
| 2017 | 198 | #1,216 | 6 | #12,231 |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,312 | 6 | #12,161 |
| 2015 | 89 | #2,151 | 8 | #9,556 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,071 | 5 | #14,332 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,813 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,375 | — | — |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,571 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,706 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,378 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,262 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,962 | — | — |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,295 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,437 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,951 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,702 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,216 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,414 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,831 | 5 | #10,804 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,745 | — | — |
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).