Zairah — #7824 US girls' name
277 babies named Zairah in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2010. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 56% of names given to girls today.
51% of everyone ever named Zairah was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Zairah in 2010 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Zairah
The Social Security Administration has registered 277 babies named Zairah between 2002 and 2024, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zairah currently holds the #7824 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Zairah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 140 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Zairah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zairah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Zairah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 277 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Zairah at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Zairah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2002
- Peak year (2010)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
Currently ranks #7824 among girls.
277 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2010 with 18 births in a single year.
Zairah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 140 births that decade — 51% of Zairah's all-time total
Zairah decade highlights
- Peak decade 140 births
- Runner-up 70 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Zairah's strongest decade
140 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
Zairah by state
Where Zairah concentrates geographically — total births since 2002
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 10 | 3.6% |
10 of 277 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 3.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2002–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.