Meaning not yet researched.
Ziva: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 134 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,243 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,243 in 2011; #1,580 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ziva in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,580 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,243.
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Ziva: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 134 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,243 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 193 (2011).
In 2025, 134 US girls were named Ziva, making it the 1,580th most common girls’ name of the year, down 145 places from #1,435 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 155 girls named Ziva in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,243, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 193. For comparison, it was #1,565 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ziva in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 2,805 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,600 babies named Ziva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,613 US girls were named Ziva; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 183. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,995 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ziva ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #1,001 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zivah, Zeva and Zeeva 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zivah (344), Zeva (272), Zeeva (148), Seva (127), Zyva (62), Siva (56).
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 Ziva 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #1,001 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,167 | #1,182 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,178 | #1,217 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,243 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,312 | — |
| Texas | 20 | #1,313 | #2,364 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,532 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,634 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,684 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,698 | #1,446 |
| California | 10 | #2,092 | #1,919 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,148 | #1,354 |
| New York | 5 | #2,422 | #1,490 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 2024 | 155 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 2023 | 172 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 2022 | 163 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2021 | 183 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2019 | 174 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 2018 | 172 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2017 | 149 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 2015 | 141 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 2012 | 160 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 2011 | 193 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,075 | — | — |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,708 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,607 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,183 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,532 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #6,007 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,588 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,864 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,306 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,387 | — | — |
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).