Meaning not yet researched.
Zia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 146 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,192 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,192 in 2024; #1,477 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Zia in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,477 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,192.
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Zia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 146 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,192 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 200 (2024).
In 2025, 146 US girls were named Zia, making it the 1,477th most common girls’ name of the year, down 285 places from #1,192 in 2024. That is 54 fewer than the 200 girls named Zia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,192, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 200. For comparison, it was #1,653 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zia in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 3,550 US babies have been given the name, 91% of them girls and 9.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,443 babies named Zia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,619 US girls were named Zia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 200. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,009 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zia ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #216 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Siya (3,183 babies since 1880), Sia (2,795 babies since 1880), Ziya (1,896 babies since 1880) and Ziyah (1,401 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zyah, Siah and Zea are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Zyah (630), Siah (586), Zea (302), Zyiah (257), Zeya (208), Zyia (162), Sie (133), Zee (121), Zeah (84), Zeo (72), Zihao (41), Ziyi (25), 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 Zia 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 8 | #216 | #469 |
| Washington | 9 | #730 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #907 | #1,245 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,242 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,264 | #1,534 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,279 | — |
| California | 18 | #1,359 | #1,531 |
| New York | 8 | #1,653 | #1,212 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146 | #1,477 | 11 | #7,673 |
| 2024 | 200 | #1,192 | 13 | #6,829 |
| 2023 | 183 | #1,263 | 11 | #7,734 |
| 2022 | 181 | #1,308 | 22 | #4,700 |
| 2021 | 152 | #1,425 | 11 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 161 | #1,360 | 10 | #8,061 |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,228 | 18 | #5,339 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,539 | 14 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,769 | 11 | #7,541 |
| 2016 | 143 | #1,566 | 9 | #8,806 |
| 2015 | 130 | #1,653 | 14 | #6,321 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,727 | 13 | #6,629 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,598 | 16 | #5,657 |
| 2012 | 129 | #1,662 | 16 | #5,718 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,856 | 16 | #5,673 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,340 | 13 | #6,695 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,138 | 8 | #9,858 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,628 | 15 | #6,066 |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,070 | 9 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,125 | 6 | #11,460 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,780 | 5 | #13,218 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,884 | 7 | #9,576 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,653 | 7 | #9,386 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,962 | 5 | #12,296 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,816 | 7 | #9,106 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,508 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,140 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,659 | — | — |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,581 | 6 | #9,010 |
| 1995 | 20 | #5,018 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,315 | 7 | #7,768 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,997 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,476 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,948 | 6 | #8,233 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,301 | 6 | #8,114 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,530 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,820 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,541 | 5 | #7,826 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,501 | 5 | #7,583 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,419 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,234 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,158 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,911 | — | — |
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).