Zya
Zya was given to 102 girls in 2025, #1,910 among girls’ names; 1,301 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Zya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zya?
#1,910 among girls’ names, 2025
Zya rose from #3,090 in 2015 to #1,910 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.8 to 63.5 per million.
144 babies in 2022, the peak
Zya peaked in 2022, when 144 girls were given it, #1,514 among girls’ names. The 102 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,910 | 63.5 |
| 2024 | 127 | #1,636 | 78.4 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,243 | 52.4 |
| 2022 | 144 | #1,514 | 87.8 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,344 | 47.5 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,467 | 43.9 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,386 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,155 | 30.6 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,246 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,797 | 35.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,090 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,100 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,333 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,382 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,204 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,395 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,480 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,878 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,377 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,951 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,368 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,738 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,574 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,828 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,748 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,521 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,232 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zya 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 Zya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zya, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,301 Americans ever recorded as Zya. The median Zya alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 628 people named Zya (615 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 708 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 | 355 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 937 |
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 Zya born?
The states with the most babies named Zya are California, Texas and Florida, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,574 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,209 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,435 | 0.8× |
| New York | 6 | #2,073 | 0.3× |
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 Zya 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 10,443 babies since 1880, Zya is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 102 of their 536 babies (19%), the third 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 Zya
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 Zya and names like it
- Compare Zya and ZiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZya peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zya since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.