Zaya
Zaya was given to 170 girls in 2025, #1,317 among girls’ names; 2,590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,570 Americans named Zaya 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 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaya?
#1,317 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaya rose from #2,151 in 2015 to #1,317 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.11 per 1,000.
207 babies in 2023, the peak
Zaya peaked in 2023, when 207 girls were given it, #1,167 among girls’ names. The 170 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,317 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 157 | #1,424 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 207 | #1,167 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 187 | #1,283 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,342 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 155 | #1,417 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 155 | #1,440 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,390 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 198 | #1,216 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,312 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #2,151 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,745 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,759 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,070 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,812 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,374 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,568 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,703 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,377 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,257 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,958 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,290 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,431 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,946 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,697 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,209 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,407 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,739 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,590 Americans recorded as Zaya, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 170 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 Zaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaya, and how old are they?
2,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,590 Americans ever recorded as Zaya. The median Zaya alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,557 people named Zaya (1,323 women and girls, 234 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,560 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 449 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,120 |
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 Zaya born?
The states with the most babies named Zaya are California, Texas and Florida, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | #1,051 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,405 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 18 | #911 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #562 | 0.5× |
| New York | 6 | #2,066 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,530 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,631 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,210 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,620 | 0.3× |
| Utah | 5 | #832 | 0.6× |
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 Zaya 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 5,436 babies since 1880, Zaya is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 170 of their 382 babies (45%), again the 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 Zaya
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 Zaya and names like it
- Compare Zaya and ZayahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZaya peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.