Xayah — #7539 US girls' name
144 babies named Xayah in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 57% of names given to girls today.
69% of everyone ever named Xayah was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Xayah in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Xayah
The Social Security Administration has registered 144 babies named Xayah between 2017 and 2024, spanning 8 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Xayah currently holds the #7539 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Xayah performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Xayah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Xayah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Xayah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 144 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Xayah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Xayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2017
- Peak year (2023)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 8 years of records
Currently ranks #7539 among girls.
144 total births across 8 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 26 births in a single year.
Xayah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 100 births that decade — 69% of Xayah's all-time total
Xayah decade highlights
- Peak decade 100 births
- Runner-up 44 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Xayah's strongest decade
100 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 69% of all-time use.
Xayah by state
Where Xayah concentrates geographically — total births since 2017
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 6.9% |
10 of 144 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 6.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2017–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.