Zyra
Zyra was given to 118 girls in 2025, #1,732 among girls’ names; 1,186 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Zyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zyra?
#1,732 among girls’ names, 2025
Zyra rose from #3,128 in 2015 to #1,732 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.3 to 73.4 per million.
118 babies in 2025, the peak
Zyra peaked in 2025, when 118 girls were given it, #1,732 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 113 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,732 | 73.4 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,795 | 69.7 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,983 | 62.3 |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,403 | 46.9 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,326 | 48.1 |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,415 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,537 | 41.7 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,926 | 33.5 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,872 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,922 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,128 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,546 | 25.2 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,775 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,384 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,348 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,768 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,087 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,951 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,087 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,710 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,494 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,172 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,499 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,239 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,188 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,652 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #14,114 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zyra 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 Zyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zyra, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,186 Americans ever recorded as Zyra. The median Zyra alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 643 people named Zyra (642 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 640 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 | 259 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 920 |
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 Zyra born?
The states with the most babies named Zyra are California, Texas and Florida, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,490 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,713 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,544 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 7 | #908 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,269 | 0.2× |
| Washington | 7 | #914 | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,126 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,686 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,409 | 0.1× |
Where Zyra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zyra is most over-represented in California: since 1998 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Zyra 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 3,673 babies since 1880, Zyra is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 198 babies (60%), 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 Zyra
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 Zyra and names like it
- Compare Zyra and ZiaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZyra peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zyra since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zyra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zyra alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.