Zaynah
Zaynah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,478 among girls’ names; 945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zaynah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zaynah?
#7,478 among girls’ names, 2025
Zaynah fell from #3,593 in 2015 to #7,478 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 9.3 per million.
44 babies in 2015, the peak
Zaynah peaked in 2015, when 44 girls were given it, #3,593 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,478 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,583 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,650 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,978 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,403 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,314 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,786 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,237 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,918 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,529 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,593 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,347 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,309 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,118 | 21.0 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,240 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,813 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,194 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,355 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,519 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,990 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,575 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,624 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,102 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,808 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,313 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,975 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,799 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,118 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,298 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,177 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,671 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,839 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,576 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,578 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,220 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,492 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #12,062 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zaynah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zaynah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zaynah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zaynah, and how old are they?
An estimated 935 Americans named Zaynah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 697 people named Zaynah (692 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 824 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,748 babies since 1880, Zaynah is the fifth most given (8.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 416 babies (3.6%), again the fifth 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 Zaynah
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 Zaynah and names like it
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