Ziya
Ziya was given to 100 girls in 2025, #1,941 among girls’ names; 1,896 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Ziya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ziya mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Ziya is “a male given name from Arabic”
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ضیا (ziyâ), from Arabic ضِيَاء (ḍiyāʔ).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ziya?
#1,941 among girls’ names, 2025
Ziya rose from #3,127 in 2015 to #1,941 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.3 to 62.2 per million.
147 babies in 2022, the peak
Ziya peaked in 2022, when 147 girls were given it, #1,489 among girls’ names. The 105 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,941 | 62.2 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,697 | 74.7 |
| 2023 | 135 | #1,577 | 84.1 |
| 2022 | 147 | #1,489 | 89.6 |
| 2021 | 127 | #1,651 | 77.4 |
| 2020 | 111 | #1,790 | 68.7 |
| 2019 | 134 | #1,596 | 79.8 |
| 2018 | 132 | #1,622 | 77.6 |
| 2017 | 128 | #1,685 | 74.1 |
| 2016 | 96 | #2,067 | 54.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,127 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,648 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,121 | 30.2 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,706 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,838 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,620 | 24.8 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,798 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,375 | 26.4 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,211 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,163 | 18.9 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,112 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,702 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,570 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,900 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,815 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,476 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,793 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ziya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,896 Americans recorded as Ziya, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 100 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ziya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziya, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,896 Americans ever recorded as Ziya. The median Ziya alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,145 people named Ziya (937 women and girls, 208 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,147 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 453 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,430 |
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 Ziya born?
The states with the most babies named Ziya are Texas, California and Georgia, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,531 | 1.0× |
| California | 11 | #1,947 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,355 | 1.2× |
| New York | 5 | #2,423 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,353 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,215 | 0.1× |
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 Ziya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,318 babies since 1880, Ziya is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 105 of their 530 babies (20%), again the second 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 Ziya
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 Ziya and names like it
- Compare Ziya and ZiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZiya peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ziya since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Ziya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ziya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ziya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.