Zanaya
Zanaya was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,093 among girls’ names; 700 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zanaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zanaya?
#5,093 among girls’ names, 2025
Zanaya fell from #4,721 in 2015 to #5,093 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 16.2 per million.
43 babies in 2001, the peak
Zanaya peaked in 2001, when 43 girls were given it, #3,251 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,093 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,436 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,243 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,665 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,402 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,307 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,583 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,997 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,184 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,439 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,721 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,704 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,824 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,333 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,929 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,897 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,801 | 16.9 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,774 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,128 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,898 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,952 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,810 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,411 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,664 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,251 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,658 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,463 | 5.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,567 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zanaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zanaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zanaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zanaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 694 Americans named Zanaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 480 people named Zanaya (478 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 16,666 babies since 1880, Zanaya is the fifth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 501 babies (5.2%), the fourth 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 Zanaya
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 Zanaya and names like it
- Compare Zanaya and ZaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZanaya peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zanaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Zanaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zanaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.