Zaynah — #7365 US girls' name
930 babies named Zaynah in U.S. Social Security records since 1983, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 58% of names given to girls today.
34% of everyone ever named Zaynah was born in this single decade.
44 babies were named Zaynah in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Zaynah
The Social Security Administration has registered 930 babies named Zaynah between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zaynah currently holds the #7365 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 44 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Zaynah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 319 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Zaynah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 45 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Zaynah in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Zaynah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 930 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Zaynah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Zaynah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1983
- Peak year (2015)
- 44
- Annual births at peak — across 42 years of records
Currently ranks #7365 among girls.
930 total births across 42 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 44 births in a single year.
Zaynah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 319 births that decade — 34% of Zaynah's all-time total
Zaynah decade highlights
- Peak decade 319 births
- Runner-up 316 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Zaynah's strongest decade
319 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Zaynah by state
Where Zaynah concentrates geographically — total births since 1983
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 45 | 4.8% |
| #2 | California | | 44 | 4.7% |
| #3 | Texas | | 32 | 3.4% |
| #4 | Pennsylvania | | 10 | 1.1% |
| #5 | Florida | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Georgia | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #7 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #8 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.5% |
45 of 930 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 4.8% of nationwide
- California 4.7% of nationwide
- Texas 3.4% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.1% of nationwide
- Florida 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1983–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.