Zamaya
Zamaya was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,316 among girls’ names; 735 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zamaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zamaya?
#6,316 among girls’ names, 2025
Zamaya fell from #4,227 in 2015 to #6,316 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 11.8 per million.
55 babies in 2019, the peak
Zamaya peaked in 2019, when 55 girls were given it, #2,999 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,316 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,142 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,187 | 21.8 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,021 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,238 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,776 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,999 | 32.8 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,558 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,183 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,920 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,227 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,174 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,332 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,912 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,145 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,591 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 39 | #4,009 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,742 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,210 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,375 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,487 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,673 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,747 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,226 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,183 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,781 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,363 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zamaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zamaya 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 Zamaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zamaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 730 Americans named Zamaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 439 people named Zamaya (435 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 561 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 4,836 babies since 1880, Zamaya is the fourth most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 124 babies (15%), the third 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 Zamaya
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 Zamaya and names like it
- Compare Zamaya and ZamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZamaya peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zamaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Zamaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zamaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.