Zaha
Zaha was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,911 among girls’ names; 122 Americans have been recorded with it since 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zaha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zaha is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zaha?
#5,911 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaha rose from #16,352 in 2015 to #5,911 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 13.1 per million.
21 babies in 2025, the peak
Zaha peaked in 2025, when 21 girls were given it, #5,911 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 19 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,911 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,383 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,039 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #9,040 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,959 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,200 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,711 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,789 | 6.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,352 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaha, and how old are they?
An estimated 121 Americans named Zaha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,224 babies since 1880, Zaha is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 370 babies (5.7%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zaha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zaha and names like it
- Compare Zaha and ZayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaha peaked in 2025.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Zaha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zaha.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaha alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.