Zendaya
Zendaya was given to 195 girls in 2025, #1,189 among girls’ names; 3,873 Americans have been recorded with it since 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,850 Americans named Zendaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Zendaya dropped 246 places in 2025, the #4 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zendaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zendaya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zendaya is “a female given name from Shona.”
Derived from Shona Tendai (a female name).
/zenˈdeɪ.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zendaya?
#1,189 among girls’ names, 2025
Zendaya fell from #789 in 2015 to #1,189 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.12 per 1,000.
430 babies in 2022, the peak
Zendaya peaked in 2022, when 430 girls were given it, #680 among girls’ names. The 195 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 195 | #1,189 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 281 | #943 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 333 | #827 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 430 | #680 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 313 | #873 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 264 | #966 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 260 | #996 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 242 | #1,062 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 260 | #1,000 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 304 | #913 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 358 | #789 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 307 | #886 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,308 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,732 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,354 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zendaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zendaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zendaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zendaya, and how old are they?
3,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,873 Americans ever recorded as Zendaya. The median Zendaya alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 145 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,700 |
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.
Where are babies named Zendaya born?
The states with the most babies named Zendaya are Florida, California and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 17 | #957 | 1.3× |
| California | 14 | #1,648 | 0.6× |
| New York | 13 | #1,163 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 12 | #852 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 11 | #876 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,207 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #623 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,112 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 6 | #775 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,622 | 0.9× |
Where Zendaya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zendaya is most over-represented in Florida: since 2011 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Zendaya 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,539 babies since 1880, Zendaya is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 195 of their 212 babies (92%), 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 Zendaya
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 Zendaya and names like it
- Compare Zendaya and ZendaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZendaya peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zendaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zendaya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zendaya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.