Meaning not yet researched.
Zendaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 195 in 2025. Its best rank was #680 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #680 in 2022; #1,189 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zendaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,189 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #680.
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Zendaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 195 girls in 2025. Peak: #680 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 430 (2022).
In 2025, 195 US girls were named Zendaya, making it the 1,189th most common girls’ name of the year, down 246 places from #943 in 2024. That is 86 fewer than the 281 girls named Zendaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #680, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 430. For comparison, it was #789 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zendaya in 15 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2011 with 26 babies. In all, 3,873 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,057 babies named Zendaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,882 US girls were named Zendaya; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 430. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zendaya ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #623 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zendayah, Zendaiya and Zyndaya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zendayah (212), Zendaiya (17), Zyndaya (5).
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 Zendaya 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 9 | #623 | #962 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #775 | #883 |
| Georgia | 12 | #852 | #775 |
| Ohio | 11 | #876 | #739 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #915 | #654 |
| Florida | 17 | #957 | #831 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,112 | #856 |
| New York | 13 | #1,163 | #757 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,209 | #1,071 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,212 | #779 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,622 | #870 |
| California | 14 | #1,648 | #1,141 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,682 | #635 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,207 | #713 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).