Zyah
Zyah was given to 40 girls in 2025, #3,778 among girls’ names; 630 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zyah?
#3,778 among girls’ names, 2025
Zyah rose from #8,002 in 2015 to #3,778 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 24.9 per million.
45 babies in 2018, the peak
Zyah peaked in 2018, when 45 babies were given it (39 girls, #3,851 among girls’ names). The 40 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,778 | 24.9 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,112 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,111 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,292 | 20.7 |
| 2021 | 37 | #4,009 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 26 | #5,000 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,340 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,851 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,692 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,793 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #8,002 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,299 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,723 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,867 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,931 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,974 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,062 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,744 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #9,001 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,708 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,826 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,753 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,418 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,588 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,342 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,646 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,337 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 630 Americans recorded as Zyah, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 40 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 Zyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 626 Americans named Zyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 358 people named Zyah (306 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 405 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,443 babies since 1880, Zyah is the sixth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 536 babies (7.5%), again the sixth 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 Zyah
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 Zyah and names like it
- Compare Zyah and ZiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZyah peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Zyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.