Zaela
#7,473 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zaela has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #7,473 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Zaela, 2025
1 in 221,000
Zaela over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zaela?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,473
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zaela sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaelas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaela was born before 2019 — so the typical Zaela is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 49.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 199
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (99).
Is Zaela rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,523
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −274
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,654
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.36×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2024 (21)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.7% average annual change
Spellings of Zaela
Zaela is not the most common spelling — Pamela is, with 26.5% against Zaela's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Zaela is used
Across 1910–2025, Zaela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zaela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zaela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zaela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zaela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.