Zaia
Zaia was given to 66 girls in 2025, #2,644 among girls’ names; 627 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaia?
#2,644 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaia rose from #7,598 in 2015 to #2,644 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 41.1 per million.
130 babies in 2023, the peak
Zaia peaked in 2023, when 130 babies were given it (120 girls, #1,723 among girls’ names). The 66 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,644 | 41.1 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,412 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,723 | 74.8 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,363 | 29.3 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,110 | 32.3 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,888 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,158 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #5,002 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,795 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,391 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,598 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,042 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,216 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,930 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,120 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,916 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,244 | 3.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,146 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,778 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,306 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 627 Americans recorded as Zaia, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 66 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zaia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaia, and how old are they?
An estimated 623 Americans named Zaia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 7. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 285 people named Zaia (198 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% 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).
How common is the spelling Zaia?
Zaia is a less common spelling of Zaya: SSA has recorded 627 Zaia and 2,590 Zaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,477 babies since 1880, Zaia is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 377 babies (18%), the second 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 Zaia
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 Zaia and names like it
- Compare Zaia and ZayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaia peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaia since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zaia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.