Ziah
Ziah is given to both girls and boys: 42 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,643 among girls’ names and #5,603 among boys’, #5,078 among all names counting both); 1,246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Ziah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ziah?
#3,643 among girls’ names, 2025
Ziah fell from #3,532 in 2015 to #3,643 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 25.2 to 26.1 per million.
82 babies in 2019, the peak
Ziah peaked in 2019, when 82 babies were given it (48 girls, #3,333 among girls’ names). The 59 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 72% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,643 | 17 | #5,603 |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,118 | 16 | #5,896 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,272 | 26 | #4,215 |
| 2022 | 52 | #3,168 | 23 | #4,563 |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,111 | 25 | #4,241 |
| 2020 | 36 | #4,003 | 14 | #6,290 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,333 | 34 | #3,421 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,242 | 17 | #5,534 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,845 | 15 | #6,053 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,247 | 8 | #9,650 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,532 | 14 | #6,318 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,099 | 7 | #10,701 |
| 2013 | 22 | #6,010 | 12 | #7,013 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,293 | 7 | #10,756 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,802 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,596 | 16 | #5,733 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,376 | 16 | #5,793 |
| 2008 | 40 | #4,004 | 8 | #9,857 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,297 | 8 | #9,775 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,084 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,431 | 10 | #7,628 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,548 | 7 | #9,935 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,569 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,434 | 8 | #8,446 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,313 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,147 | 7 | #9,099 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,475 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,581 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ziah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,246 Americans recorded as Ziah, 74% are girls and 26% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ziah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziah, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,246 Americans ever recorded as Ziah. The median Ziah alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 755 people named Ziah (533 women and girls, 222 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 847 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 451 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 785 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,443 babies since 1880, Ziah is the fifth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 536 babies (11%), 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 Ziah
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 Ziah and names like it
- Compare Ziah and ZiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZiah peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ziah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ziah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ziah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.