In 2025, 39 US girls were named Zayra, making it the 3,831st most common girls’ name of the year, down 316 places from #3,515 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 45 girls named Zayra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,194, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #3,841 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zayra in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 7 babies. In all, 1,683 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 616 babies named Zayra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 400 US girls were named Zayra; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 46. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,212 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sara (437,441 babies since 1880), Zara (20,930 babies since 1880), Zahra (9,395 babies since 1880) and Zaira (4,986 babies since 1880).