Zania
Zania was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,912 among girls’ names; 886 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zania?
#5,912 among girls’ names, 2025
Zania fell from #5,649 in 2015 to #5,912 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 13.1 per million.
61 babies in 2006, the peak
Zania peaked in 2006, when 61 girls were given it, #2,886 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,912 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,632 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,235 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,967 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,943 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,074 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #7,012 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,780 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #6,035 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,653 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,649 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,985 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,480 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,779 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,350 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,743 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,221 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,707 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,245 | 27.6 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,886 | 32.1 |
| 2005 | 46 | #3,360 | 24.9 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,280 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,227 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,882 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,780 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,974 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,650 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,108 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,008 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,124 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,633 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,089 | 7.3 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,476 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,489 | 5.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,822 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,059 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zania, and how old are they?
An estimated 877 Americans named Zania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 734 people named Zania (733 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 771 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below 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).
How common is the spelling Zania?
Zania is a less common spelling of Zaniyah: SSA has recorded 886 Zania and 7,428 Zaniyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,817 babies since 1880, Zania is the seventh most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 821 babies (2.6%), the eighth 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 Zania
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 Zania and names like it
- Compare Zania and ZaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZania peaked in 2006.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zania since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Zania.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zania alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.