Girls' name · since 2021

Zaraiya

31 babies named Zaraiya in U.S. Social Security records since 2021, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#40,747 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,048 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
31
born since 2021
2020s
peak decade

Yes -- Zaraiya is the #13048 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 31 recorded since 2021.

Social Security Administration records show Zaraiya recorded 31 times among girls since 2021, holding rank #13048 nationally today, ahead of 25% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2025.

  • #40,747 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,048 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 31 born since 2021
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zaraiya ranks #40,747 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,048 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 31 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.

#40,747 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,048 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
31
born since 2021
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%24.5%
Zaraiya vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Zaraiya's 31 recorded births place it above 43.66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Zaraiya compares

31 11th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Zaraiya's all-time total is 92% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Zaraiya Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 31 376 567,345
Peak-year births 7 21 19,840

Zaraiya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Zaraiya's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 58% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 42%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2022 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Zaraiya popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2022)
7
Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
4.555.566.577.5 20212022202320242025 7

Zaraiya by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (31 births, 100% of the file).

2020s was Zaraiya's strongest decade.

31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.

Zaraiya births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 31 births (100% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Zaraiya?
Zaraiya has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 2021, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #40,747 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #13,048 of 17,297. 7 babies were born in 2022, its single highest year.
Where does Zaraiya sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zaraiya ranks #40,747 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,048 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Zaraiya most popular?
Zaraiya was most popular in the 2020s decade with 31 total births. The single peak year was 2022.
How long has the name Zaraiya been used?
Zaraiya has been recorded in Social Security data since 2021, spanning 5 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Zaraiya?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Zara, Zariah, Zaria, Zariyah, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Zaraiya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2021–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Zaraiya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.