Girls' name · since 2017
Zahavah
Since 2017, U.S. Social Security records show 16 babies named Zahavah, peaking in 2017. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #49,369 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,636 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zahavah currently ranks #16636 among girls' names in America, with 16 babies recorded since 2017.
Social Security Administration records show Zahavah recorded 16 times among girls since 2017, holding rank #16636 nationally today, ahead of 4% 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 2017 to 2025.
- #49,369 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,636 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 16 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zahavah ranks #49,369 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,636 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 16 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #49,369 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,636 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 16
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zahavah's 16 recorded births place it above 31.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zahavah compares
16 6th 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
Zahavah's all-time total is 96% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zahavah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 16 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zahavah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Zahavah's full recorded timeline at 2024, 63% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 37% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2024, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2017 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Zahavah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2017)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Zahavah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (10 births, 63% of the file).
2020s was Zahavah's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Zahavah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 10 births (63% of all-time use).
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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, 2017–2025 (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 Zahavah 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.