Zaira
Zaira was given to 224 girls in 2025, #1,081 among girls’ names; 4,986 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,930 Americans named Zaira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zaira mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Zaira is “a female given name”
/ˈθaiɾa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zaira?
#1,081 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaira rose from #1,574 in 2015 to #1,081 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.08 to 0.14 per 1,000.
224 babies in 2025, the peak
Zaira peaked in 2025, when 224 girls were given it, #1,081 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 192 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 224 | #1,081 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,230 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 187 | #1,243 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 193 | #1,250 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 220 | #1,126 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 134 | #1,577 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,464 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,662 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,954 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 140 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 122 | #1,726 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,450 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,780 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 153 | #1,468 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 169 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,404 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 168 | #1,420 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 156 | #1,488 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 161 | #1,414 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 136 | #1,524 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 132 | #1,526 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,718 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,841 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,652 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,714 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,782 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 87 | #1,797 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 96 | #1,652 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 80 | #1,837 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,697 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,966 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,877 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,519 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 73 | #1,926 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,875 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,298 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,219 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,852 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,606 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,453 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,735 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,304 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,942 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,251 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,425 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,639 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,436 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,291 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,658 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,696 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaira, and how old are they?
4,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,986 Americans ever recorded as Zaira. The median Zaira alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 5,219 people named Zaira (5,195 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 77 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 727 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,090 |
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 Zaira born?
The states with the most babies named Zaira are California, Texas and New York, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 52 | #615 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 32 | #916 | 1.7× |
| New York | 18 | #901 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,108 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 13 | #747 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,073 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,278 | 0.3× |
| Nevada | 6 | #507 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 5 | #997 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #998 | 0.1× |
Where Zaira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaira is most over-represented in California: since 1969 it was given 2.3 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 Zaira 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 56,818 babies since 1880, Zaira is the fourth most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 224 of their 2,938 babies (7.6%), again the fourth 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 Zaira
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 Zaira and names like it
- Compare Zaira and ZaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaira peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaira since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Zaira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zaira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.