Zavia
Zavia was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,445 among girls’ names; 268 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zavia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zavia?
#9,445 among girls’ names, 2025
Zavia rose from #19,060 in 2015 to #9,445 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 6.8 per million.
27 babies in 2021, the peak
Zavia peaked in 2021, when 27 girls were given it, #4,954 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,445 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,156 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,382 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,977 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,954 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,955 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,456 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,136 | 8.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,304 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #19,060 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,532 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,221 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,482 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,136 | 7.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,369 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,906 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #20,018 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,431 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,310 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,405 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,856 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,790 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 6 | #14,094 | 3.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,219 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zavia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 268 Americans recorded as Zavia, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zavia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zavia, and how old are they?
An estimated 266 Americans named Zavia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 217 people named Zavia (173 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Zavia?
Zavia is a less common spelling of Zhavia: SSA has recorded 268 Zavia and 1,103 Zhavia since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,724 babies since 1880, Zavia is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 106 babies (10%), the third 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 Zavia
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 Zavia and names like it
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