Zayah
Zayah was given to 44 girls in 2025, #3,515 among girls’ names; 861 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zayah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zayah?
#3,515 among girls’ names, 2025
Zayah rose from #3,764 in 2015 to #3,515 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 27.4 per million.
70 babies in 2021, the peak
Zayah peaked in 2021, when 70 babies were given it (65 girls, #2,673 among girls’ names). The 44 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #3,515 | 27.4 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,796 | 37.6 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,385 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,217 | 31.1 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,673 | 39.6 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,139 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,609 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,105 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,742 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,522 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,764 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,580 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,039 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,932 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,422 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,774 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,409 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,794 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,996 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,597 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,815 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,795 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,397 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,096 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 10 | #10,089 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zayah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 861 Americans recorded as Zayah, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 44 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 Zayah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zayah, and how old are they?
An estimated 855 Americans named Zayah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 481 people named Zayah (431 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,383 babies since 1880, Zayah is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 377 babies (12%), 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 Zayah
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 Zayah and names like it
- Compare Zayah and ZayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZayah peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zayah since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Zayah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zayah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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