Zarya
Zarya was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,549 among girls’ names; 667 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zarya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zarya?
#5,549 among girls’ names, 2025
Zarya fell from #5,452 in 2015 to #5,549 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 14.3 per million.
43 babies in 2022, the peak
Zarya peaked in 2022, when 43 girls were given it, #3,648 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,549 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,662 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,830 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,648 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,319 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,543 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 37 | #4,003 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,233 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,917 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,975 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,452 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,792 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,538 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,703 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,801 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,688 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,568 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,345 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,080 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,835 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,111 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,250 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,660 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,272 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,741 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,475 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,703 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,110 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,793 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zarya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zarya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zarya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zarya, and how old are they?
An estimated 662 Americans named Zarya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 409 people named Zarya (406 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 472 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Zarya?
Zarya is a less common spelling of Zariah: SSA has recorded 667 Zarya and 14,313 Zariah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,094 babies since 1880, Zarya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 3,815 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Zarya
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.
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