Zahia
Zahia was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,218 among girls’ names; 53 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zahia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zahia?
#17,218 among girls’ names, 2025
Zahia entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #17,218 in 2025.
7 babies in 2012, the peak
Zahia peaked in 2012, when 7 girls were given it, #14,929 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,218 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,144 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,253 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,490 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,072 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,457 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,929 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,929 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,552 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zahia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zahia 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 Zahia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zahia, and how old are they?
An estimated 53 Americans named Zahia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Zahia (280 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 36 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.0 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,457 babies since 1880, Zahia is the seventh most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 326 babies (1.5%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Zahia
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 Zahia and names like it
- Compare Zahia and ZayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZahia peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Zahia.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.