Zamiyah
Zamiyah was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,710 among girls’ names; 1,277 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Zamiyah 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 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zamiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zamiyah?
#3,710 among girls’ names, 2025
Zamiyah fell from #2,735 in 2015 to #3,710 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 36.4 to 25.5 per million.
84 babies in 2012, the peak
Zamiyah peaked in 2012, when 84 girls were given it, #2,263 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,710 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,514 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,271 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 55 | #3,031 | 33.5 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,637 | 40.2 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,929 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 65 | #2,680 | 38.7 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,583 | 40.0 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,815 | 35.3 |
| 2016 | 59 | #2,899 | 33.3 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,735 | 36.4 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,496 | 40.9 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,901 | 33.6 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,263 | 47.7 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,693 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,801 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,750 | 35.9 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,753 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,244 | 27.6 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,572 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,255 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,546 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,407 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,824 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #12,033 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,614 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zamiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zamiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zamiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zamiyah, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,277 Americans ever recorded as Zamiyah. The median Zamiyah alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 649 people named Zamiyah (647 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 972 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 758 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,272 babies since 1880, Zamiyah is the most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 136 babies (30%), again the 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 Zamiyah
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 Zamiyah and names like it
- Compare Zamiyah and ZamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZamiyah peaked in 2012.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zamiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Zamiyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zamiyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.