Meaning not yet researched.
Ziah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,111 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,111 in 2021; #3,644 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Ziah in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,644 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #3,111.
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Ziah: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,111 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 53 (2021).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Ziah, making it the 3,644th most common girls’ name of the year, down 526 places from #3,118 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 52 girls named Ziah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,111, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 53. For comparison, it was #3,532 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Ziah, making it the 5,605th most common boys’ name of the year, up 296 places from #5,901 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 16 boys named Ziah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,424, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 34. For comparison, it was #6,322 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ziah in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 5 babies. In all, 1,246 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 511 babies named Ziah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 458 US girls were named Ziah; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zia (3,550 babies since 1880), Sia (2,795 babies since 1880), Ziya (1,896 babies since 1880) and Ziyah (1,401 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Ziah 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 | 42 | #3,644 | 17 | #5,605 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,118 | 16 | #5,901 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,272 | 26 | #4,219 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,169 | 23 | #4,567 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,111 | 25 | #4,245 |
| 2020 | 36 | #4,004 | 14 | #6,294 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,334 | 34 | #3,424 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,243 | 17 | #5,538 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,846 | 15 | #6,057 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,248 | 8 | #9,655 |
| 2015 | 45 | #3,532 | 14 | #6,322 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,101 | 7 | #10,707 |
| 2013 | 22 | #6,013 | 12 | #7,018 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,295 | 7 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,803 | 14 | #6,253 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,598 | 16 | #5,737 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,377 | 16 | #5,797 |
| 2008 | 40 | #4,005 | 8 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,298 | 8 | #9,781 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,085 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,436 | 10 | #7,635 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,552 | 7 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,574 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,440 | 8 | #8,453 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,318 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,154 | 7 | #9,107 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,481 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,589 | — | — |
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).