Zahia — girls' name
48 babies named Zahia in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2012. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Zahia was born in this single decade.
7 babies were named Zahia in 2012 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Zahia
The Social Security Administration has registered 48 babies named Zahia between 1998 and 2023, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zahia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 7 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Zahia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 26 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Zahia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Zahia 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 48 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.
Zahia at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Zahia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1998
- Peak year (2012)
- 7
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
48 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2012 with 7 births in a single year.
Zahia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 26 births that decade — 54% of Zahia's all-time total
Zahia decade highlights
- Peak decade 26 births
- Runner-up 12 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Zahia's strongest decade
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
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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, 1998–2023 (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.