Zyah is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Zia, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Zyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,779 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Zyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,779 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,779 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 40 (2025).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Zyah, making it the 3,779th most common girls’ name of the year, up 334 places from #4,113 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 36 girls named Zyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,779, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #8,006 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zyah in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 9 babies. In all, 630 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 7.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 269 babies named Zyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 334 US girls were named Zyah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zia (3,550 babies since 1880), Ziya (1,896 babies since 1880), Ziyah (1,401 babies since 1880) and Zya (1,301 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Zyah 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 | 40 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,113 | 5 | #14,285 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,113 | 5 | #14,209 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,294 | 6 | #12,320 |
| 2021 | 37 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #5,002 | 5 | #14,050 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,341 | 5 | #14,126 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,852 | 6 | #12,151 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,694 | 6 | #12,243 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,795 | 6 | #12,177 |
| 2015 | 15 | #8,006 | 5 | #14,054 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,301 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,727 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,871 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,934 | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,976 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,065 | — | — |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,747 | — | — |
| 2007 | 14 | #9,005 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,712 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,832 | — | — |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,759 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,423 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,594 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,349 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,654 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,344 | — | — |
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).