Girls' name · since 1974
Zira
186 babies named Zira in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,578 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,637 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 186
- born since 1974
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Zira is the #6637 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 186 recorded since 1974.
Zira has 186 recorded births among girls since 1974, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #6637 as of the latest data, more common than 62% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1974 to 2025.
- #20,578 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #6,637 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 186 born since 1974
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zira ranks #20,578 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,637 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 186 born since 1974, peaking in the 2020s.
- #20,578 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #6,637 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 186
- born since 1974
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zira's 186 recorded births place it above 71.55% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zira compares
186 35th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Zira's all-time total is 51% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zira | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 186 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 22 | 21 | 19,840 |
Zira's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Zira splits its recorded history at 2015: 69% of all births land in the more recent half, 31% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1974 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 22 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Zira popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1974–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 22
- Annual births at peak, across 52 years of records
Zira by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (95 births, 51% of the file).
2020s was Zira's strongest decade.
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Zira births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 2000s 25
2000s
25 births
- 2010s
2010s
61 births
- 2020s
2020s
95 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 95 births (51% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Zira: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2023)
Similar record span (~51 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1974–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Zira draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.