Zariah
Zariah was given to 689 girls in 2025, #450 among girls’ names; 14,313 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,200 Americans named Zariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zariah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zariah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zariah?
#450 among girls’ names, 2025
Zariah rose from #506 in 2015 to #450 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.35 to 0.43 per 1,000.
761 babies in 2023, the peak
Zariah peaked in 2023, when 761 babies were given it (750 girls, #407 among girls’ names). The 701 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 92% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 689 | #450 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 710 | #436 | 0.44 |
| 2023 | 750 | #407 | 0.47 |
| 2022 | 669 | #475 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 584 | #529 | 0.36 |
| 2020 | 671 | #460 | 0.42 |
| 2019 | 652 | #482 | 0.39 |
| 2018 | 728 | #438 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 709 | #447 | 0.41 |
| 2016 | 720 | #449 | 0.41 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 625 | #506 | 0.35 |
| 2014 | 584 | #532 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 571 | #523 | 0.33 |
| 2012 | 647 | #475 | 0.37 |
| 2011 | 630 | #471 | 0.36 |
| 2010 | 617 | #491 | 0.35 |
| 2009 | 607 | #500 | 0.33 |
| 2008 | 536 | #575 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 497 | #605 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 349 | #787 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 264 | #939 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 248 | #969 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 219 | #1,047 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 149 | #1,316 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 180 | #1,159 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 168 | #1,192 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 110 | #1,545 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,455 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,880 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,755 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,503 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,661 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,477 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 14,313 Americans recorded as Zariah, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 689 girls and 12 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zariah, and how old are they?
14,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 14,313 Americans ever recorded as Zariah. The median Zariah alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 7,810 people named Zariah (7,695 women and girls, 115 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,267 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 82 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,410 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,710 |
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 Zariah born?
The states with the most babies named Zariah are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 76 | #443 | 1.1× |
| California | 59 | #555 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 50 | #374 | 1.4× |
| New York | 37 | #472 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 31 | #363 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #401 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #441 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 25 | #461 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 20 | #356 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 19 | #456 | 1.0× |
Where Zariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zariah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1992 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 Zariah 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 61,556 babies since 1880, Zariah is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 701 of their 3,168 babies (22%), again the second most given.
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 Zariah
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 Zariah and names like it
- Compare Zariah and ZaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZariah peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zariah since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zariah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zariah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.