Zaiah
Zaiah is given to both girls and boys: 16 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,122 among girls’ names and #9,688 among boys’, #9,373 among all names counting both); 407 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaiah?
#7,122 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaiah rose from #10,129 in 2015 to #7,122 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 10.0 per million.
35 babies in 2023, the peak
Zaiah peaked in 2023, when 35 babies were given it (22 girls, #5,740 among girls’ names). The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,122 | 8 | #9,688 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,785 | 11 | #7,744 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,740 | 13 | #6,881 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,512 | 10 | #8,277 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,952 | 13 | #6,677 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,524 | 6 | #11,982 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,581 | 12 | #7,157 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,519 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,275 | 10 | #8,123 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,826 | 5 | #14,154 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,129 | 6 | #12,058 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,458 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,934 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,402 | 10 | #8,132 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,310 | 6 | #12,248 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,432 | 6 | #12,187 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #14,488 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,790 | 6 | #12,518 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,507 | 11 | #7,571 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,120 | 5 | #13,983 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,808 | 8 | #9,090 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 5 | #13,189 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #8,439 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zaiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 407 Americans recorded as Zaiah, 60% are girls and 40% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zaiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaiah, and how old are they?
An estimated 404 Americans named Zaiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 261 people named Zaiah (140 women and girls, 121 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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 Zaiah?
Zaiah is a less common spelling of Zaya: SSA has recorded 407 Zaiah and 2,590 Zaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,436 babies since 1880, Zaiah is the fifth most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 382 babies (6.3%), again the fifth 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 Zaiah
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 Zaiah and names like it
- Compare Zaiah and ZayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaiah peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zaiah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaiah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.