Ziyah
Ziyah was given to 62 girls in 2025, #2,777 among girls’ names; 1,401 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Ziyah 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 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ziyah?
#2,777 among girls’ names, 2025
Ziyah rose from #3,089 in 2015 to #2,777 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.8 to 38.6 per million.
98 babies in 2019, the peak
Ziyah peaked in 2019, when 98 babies were given it (91 girls, #2,089 among girls’ names). The 62 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,777 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,558 | 43.2 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,313 | 49.9 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,276 | 50.6 |
| 2021 | 86 | #2,185 | 52.4 |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,301 | 48.3 |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,089 | 54.2 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,506 | 41.7 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,337 | 45.8 |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,342 | 45.7 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,089 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,844 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,462 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,210 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,090 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,358 | 27.6 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,674 | 24.0 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,759 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,167 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,732 | 22.1 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,259 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,252 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,200 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,037 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,745 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,859 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,466 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ziyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,401 Americans recorded as Ziyah, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 62 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ziyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziyah, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,401 Americans ever recorded as Ziyah. The median Ziyah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 764 people named Ziyah (722 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 949 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 | 435 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 956 |
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 Ziyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,797 | 0.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,530 | 0.4× |
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 Ziyah 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 10,386 babies since 1880, Ziyah is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 531 babies (12%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Ziyah
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 Ziyah and names like it
- Compare Ziyah and ZiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZiyah peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ziyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ziyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ziyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.