Zahava
Zahava was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,349 among girls’ names; 848 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zahava by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zahava?
#4,349 among girls’ names, 2025
Zahava rose from #4,975 in 2015 to #4,349 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 20.5 per million.
40 babies in 2024, the peak
Zahava peaked in 2024, when 40 girls were given it, #3,819 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,349 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,819 | 24.7 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,241 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,465 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 37 | #4,007 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,775 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 37 | #4,001 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,557 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,511 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,528 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,975 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,159 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,359 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,548 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,326 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,973 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,799 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,062 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,518 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,347 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,521 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,204 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,579 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,822 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,085 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,852 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,227 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,709 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,120 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #8,069 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,113 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,769 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,053 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,977 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,486 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,027 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,232 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,240 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,531 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,207 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,228 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,186 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,908 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,203 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,559 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,905 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,764 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,799 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zahava a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zahava has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zahava: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zahava, and how old are they?
An estimated 837 Americans named Zahava and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 737 people named Zahava (734 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 644 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Zahava born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 12 | #666 | 4.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,826 | 4.9× |
Where Zahava is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zahava is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 4.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zahava with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,951 babies since 1880, Zahava is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 70 babies (47%), again the second 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 Zahava
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 Zahava and names like it
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