Zalia
Zalia was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,543 among girls’ names; 482 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zalia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zalia?
#4,543 among girls’ names, 2025
Zalia rose from #6,027 in 2015 to #4,543 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 19.3 per million.
46 babies in 2023, the peak
Zalia peaked in 2023, when 46 girls were given it, #3,474 among girls’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,543 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,891 | 24.1 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,474 | 28.7 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,663 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,567 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,997 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,903 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,306 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,655 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,652 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,027 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,702 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,479 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,132 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,709 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,435 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,407 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,065 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,608 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,401 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,982 | 4.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,817 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,490 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,999 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,560 | 2.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,967 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,285 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zalia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zalia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zalia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zalia, and how old are they?
An estimated 467 Americans named Zalia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 299 people named Zalia (297 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,678 babies since 1880, Zalia is the sixth most given (5.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 686 babies (4.5%), again the sixth 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 Zalia
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 Zalia and names like it
- Compare Zalia and ZaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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