Zalea
#8,345 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zalea has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #8,345 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Zalea, 2025
1 in 255,000
Zalea 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zalea?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,345
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zalea 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zalea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zaleas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zalea was born before 2016 — so the typical Zalea is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 163
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.4% of all recorded uses (87).
Is Zalea 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
- +5,095
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,183
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,627
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.63×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2010 (13)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zalea
Zalea is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 14.9% against Zalea'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.
Zalea around the world
Where Zalea 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.
- Canada2016–2016#3,204in 2016
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zalea by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zalea
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zalea
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.