Zaina
Zaina was given to 170 girls in 2025, #1,316 among girls’ names; 3,123 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,100 Americans named Zaina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaina?
#1,316 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaina rose from #1,871 in 2015 to #1,316 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.11 per 1,000.
170 babies in 2025, the peak
Zaina peaked in 2025, when 170 girls were given it, #1,316 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 148 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,316 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 148 | #1,483 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 136 | #1,568 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,572 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,640 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,678 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,434 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 143 | #1,544 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 151 | #1,511 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,871 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,735 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,879 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 96 | #2,026 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 114 | #1,788 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,927 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,933 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,773 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,483 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,484 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,054 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,673 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,460 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,190 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 48 | #3,003 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,264 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,713 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 29 | #4,019 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,652 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,422 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,081 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,249 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,256 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,652 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,179 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,241 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,512 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,554 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,503 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaina, and how old are they?
3,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,123 Americans ever recorded as Zaina. The median Zaina alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,292 people named Zaina (2,286 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,288 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 213 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,750 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Zaina born?
The states with the most babies named Zaina are New York, Illinois and Texas, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 20 | #828 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 20 | #514 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,404 | 1.0× |
| California | 13 | #1,740 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #772 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 10 | #784 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #1,011 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 8 | #932 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,277 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,143 | 0.6× |
Where Zaina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaina is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1982 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zaina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,122 babies since 1880, Zaina is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 170 of their 462 babies (37%), the 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 Zaina
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 Zaina and names like it
- Compare Zaina and ZaniyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaina peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaina since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zaina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.