Zaniah
Zaniah was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,169 among girls’ names; 1,766 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,750 Americans named Zaniah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaniah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaniah?
#4,169 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaniah fell from #2,684 in 2015 to #4,169 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 21.8 per million.
130 babies in 2008, the peak
Zaniah peaked in 2008, when 130 girls were given it, #1,716 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,169 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,383 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,384 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,789 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,551 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,658 | 39.6 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,041 | 32.2 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,505 | 41.7 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,243 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,227 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,684 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 76 | #2,411 | 42.5 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,258 | 47.3 |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,159 | 50.0 |
| 2011 | 101 | #1,967 | 57.4 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,076 | 54.0 |
| 2009 | 112 | #1,888 | 61.0 |
| 2008 | 130 | #1,716 | 68.7 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,116 | 49.9 |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,977 | 53.7 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,276 | 43.3 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,065 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,182 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,278 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,935 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,569 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,181 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,825 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,864 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,738 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaniah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaniah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaniah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaniah, and how old are they?
1,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,766 Americans ever recorded as Zaniah. The median Zaniah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,152 people named Zaniah (1,149 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,485 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 733 |
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).
Where are babies named Zaniah born?
The states with the most babies named Zaniah are Texas, Florida and California, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 180 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 157 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 82 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 72 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 58 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 49 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 19 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Zaniah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaniah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zaniah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Zaniah?
Zaniah is a less common spelling of Zaniyah: SSA has recorded 1,766 Zaniah and 7,428 Zaniyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,094 babies since 1880, Zaniah is the fourth most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 511 babies (6.8%), 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 Zaniah
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 Zaniah and names like it
- Compare Zaniah and ZaniyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZaniah peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaniah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Zaniah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zaniah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.