Zaria
Zaria was given to 274 girls in 2025, #945 among girls’ names; 11,277 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,200 Americans named Zaria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaria?
#945 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaria fell from #874 in 2015 to #945 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.18 to 0.17 per 1,000.
568 babies in 2000, the peak
Zaria peaked in 2000, when 568 girls were given it, #479 among girls’ names. The 274 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 274 | #945 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 332 | #828 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 371 | #758 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 374 | #766 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 295 | #913 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 314 | #861 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 375 | #751 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 362 | #753 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 358 | #772 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 351 | #816 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 319 | #874 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 320 | #861 | 0.18 |
| 2013 | 332 | #813 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 317 | #843 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 364 | #758 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 325 | #826 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 358 | #794 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 443 | #687 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 415 | #705 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 393 | #719 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 378 | #724 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 409 | #673 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 410 | #647 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 440 | #588 | 0.24 |
| 2001 | 512 | #522 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 568 | #479 | 0.31 |
| 1999 | 351 | #657 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 479 | #527 | 0.27 |
| 1997 | 341 | #648 | 0.20 |
| 1996 | 289 | #729 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,183 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,710 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,503 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,449 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,218 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,231 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaria, and how old are they?
11,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,277 Americans ever recorded as Zaria. The median Zaria alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 8,017 people named Zaria (7,992 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,350 |
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 Zaria born?
The states with the most babies named Zaria are Texas, Georgia and New York, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #1,060 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 23 | #508 | 2.6× |
| New York | 21 | #789 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 19 | #863 | 1.6× |
| California | 17 | #1,408 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 15 | #552 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #779 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #811 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11 | #875 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 9 | #841 | 1.2× |
Where Zaria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zaria is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1982 it was given 2.6 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 Zaria with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 73,408 babies since 1880, Zaria is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 274 of their 3,874 babies (7.1%), the fifth 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 Zaria
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 Zaria and names like it
- Compare Zaria and ZaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZaria peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaria since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Zaria.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zaria alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.