Meaning not yet researched.
Zayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,673 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,673 in 2021; #3,516 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,516 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,673.
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Zayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,673 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 65 (2021).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Zayah, making it the 3,516th most common girls’ name of the year, down 720 places from #2,796 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 61 girls named Zayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,673, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #3,765 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zayah in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 10 babies. In all, 861 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 443 babies named Zayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 524 US girls were named Zayah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 65. 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 Zaya (2,590 babies since 1880), Saya (1,305 babies since 1880) and Zaia (627 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zahiyah are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zahiyah (15).
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 Zayah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,385 | 5 | #14,179 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,673 | 5 | #14,063 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,765 | — | — |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,582 | — | — |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,040 | 5 | #14,039 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,426 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,778 | 6 | #12,208 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,415 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,799 | 5 | #14,591 |
| 2007 | 14 | #9,000 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,602 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,821 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,802 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,404 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,102 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,096 | — | — |
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).