Girls' name · since 2020
Xaya
27 babies named Xaya in U.S. Social Security records since 2020, with the highest year being 2021. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #42,497 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,817 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 27
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Xaya is the #11817 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 27 recorded since 2020.
Social Security Administration records show Xaya recorded 27 times among girls since 2020, holding rank #11817 nationally today, ahead of 32% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2020 to 2025.
- #42,497 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,817 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 27 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Xaya ranks #42,497 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,817 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 27 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #42,497 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,817 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 27
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Xaya's 27 recorded births place it above 41.22% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Xaya compares
27 10th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Xaya's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Xaya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 27 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Xaya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Xaya's full recorded timeline at 2022, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2022, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Xaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Xaya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (27 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Xaya's strongest decade.
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Xaya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
27 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 27 births (100% of all-time use).
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Xaya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2021)
Similar record span (~5 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2020–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Xaya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.