Zariya
Zariya was given to 82 girls in 2025, #2,255 among girls’ names; 1,981 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,970 Americans named Zariya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zariya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zariya?
#2,255 among girls’ names, 2025
Zariya fell from #2,167 in 2015 to #2,255 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 49.3 to 51.0 per million.
109 babies in 2011, the peak
Zariya peaked in 2011, when 109 girls were given it, #1,855 among girls’ names. The 82 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,255 | 51.0 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,894 | 65.4 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,902 | 65.4 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,687 | 39.6 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,509 | 43.3 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,822 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,481 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,645 | 38.8 |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,355 | 45.2 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,286 | 47.4 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 88 | #2,167 | 49.3 |
| 2014 | 82 | #2,289 | 45.9 |
| 2013 | 89 | #2,136 | 50.7 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,874 | 61.3 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,855 | 62.0 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,977 | 57.4 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,164 | 50.6 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,031 | 54.5 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,484 | 39.5 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,726 | 34.7 |
| 2005 | 54 | #3,004 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,439 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,662 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,613 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,164 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,971 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,210 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,488 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,476 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,125 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,737 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zariya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zariya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zariya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zariya, and how old are they?
1,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,981 Americans ever recorded as Zariya. The median Zariya alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,144 people named Zariya (1,139 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,497 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 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 909 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,040 |
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 Zariya born?
The states with the most babies named Zariya are Texas, California and Georgia, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,203 | 0.8× |
| California | 7 | #2,758 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,783 | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,680 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,407 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,309 | 0.6× |
Where Zariya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zariya is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1995 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 Zariya 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 Zariya?
Zariya is a less common spelling of Zariah: SSA has recorded 1,981 Zariya and 14,313 Zariah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 63,791 babies since 1880, Zariya is the sixth most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 82 of their 3,269 babies (2.5%), again the sixth 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 Zariya
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 Zariya and names like it
- Compare Zariya and ZariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZariya peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zariya since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Zariya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zariya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.