Ziva
Ziva was given to 134 girls in 2025, #1,580 among girls’ names; 2,805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,780 Americans named Ziva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ziva?
#1,580 among girls’ names, 2025
Ziva fell from #1,565 in 2015 to #1,580 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 79.0 to 83.4 per million.
193 babies in 2011, the peak
Ziva peaked in 2011, when 193 girls were given it, #1,243 among girls’ names. The 134 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 155 | #1,435 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 172 | #1,323 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 163 | #1,405 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 183 | #1,272 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,255 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 174 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 172 | #1,324 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 149 | #1,494 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,666 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,565 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,501 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 172 | #1,361 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 160 | #1,431 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 193 | #1,243 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,430 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,075 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,446 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,705 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,602 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #6,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,305 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,386 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ziva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ziva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ziva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziva, and how old are they?
2,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,805 Americans ever recorded as Ziva. The median Ziva alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,877 people named Ziva (1,863 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,846 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 684 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,060 |
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).
Where are babies named Ziva born?
The states with the most babies named Ziva are Texas, California and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,313 | 0.7× |
| California | 10 | #2,092 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,148 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,167 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,532 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,178 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,422 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,697 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,684 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,634 | 0.6× |
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 Ziva 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,211 babies since 1880, Ziva is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 149 babies (90%), 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 Ziva
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 Ziva and names like it
- Compare Ziva and ZivahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZiva peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ziva since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Ziva.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ziva alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.