Zahia
#17,218 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zahia has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #17,218 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Zahia, 2025
1 in 663,000
Zahia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zahia?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #17,218
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zahia 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zahia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zahias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zahia was born before 2017 — so the typical Zahia is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 53
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Zahia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2012 (7)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Zahia
Zahia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 45.2% against Zahia'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.
Zahia around the world
Where Zahia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2012–2022#5,670in 2022
- France1951–2025#5,365in 2025
- Canada2017–2017#3,407in 2017
- South Australia1975–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zahia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zahia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zahia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.