Zariyah
Zariyah was given to 448 girls in 2025, #645 among girls’ names; 7,569 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,520 Americans named Zariyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zariyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zariyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zariyah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zariyah?
#645 among girls’ names, 2025
Zariyah rose from #747 in 2015 to #645 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.21 to 0.28 per 1,000.
505 babies in 2022, the peak
Zariyah peaked in 2022, when 505 girls were given it, #593 among girls’ names. The 448 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 448 | #645 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 481 | #622 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 461 | #636 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 505 | #593 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 476 | #626 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 404 | #698 | 0.25 |
| 2019 | 385 | #737 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 418 | #697 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 391 | #731 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 397 | #718 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 378 | #747 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 353 | #799 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 348 | #783 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 350 | #784 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 315 | #840 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 307 | #871 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 244 | #1,057 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 216 | #1,183 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 188 | #1,302 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 142 | #1,545 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,055 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,392 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,286 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,648 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,203 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,972 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,788 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,791 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,653 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,869 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zariyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zariyah 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 Zariyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zariyah, and how old are they?
7,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,569 Americans ever recorded as Zariyah. The median Zariyah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 3,360 people named Zariyah (3,349 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,863 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,410 |
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 Zariyah born?
The states with the most babies named Zariyah are Texas, California and Georgia, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 52 | #614 | 1.0× |
| California | 38 | #799 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 33 | #339 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 30 | #597 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 26 | #443 | 0.9× |
| New York | 24 | #703 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 16 | #496 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #683 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 15 | #540 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 15 | #480 | 0.7× |
Where Zariyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zariyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1996 it was given 2.4 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 Zariyah 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 40,217 babies since 1880, Zariyah is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 448 of their 1,729 babies (26%), the second 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 Zariyah
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 Zariyah and names like it
- Compare Zariyah and ZariahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZariyah peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zariyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zariyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zariyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.