Zanayah

#9,443 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Zanayah has been given to 288 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #9,443 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Zanayah, 2025

1 in 301,000

Zanayah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zanayah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,443
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zanayah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zanayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zanayahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zanayah was born before 2013 — so the typical Zanayah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
288
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Zanayah 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
−1,863
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,535
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,534
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.7%
Peak was 2009 (17)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,908
2020

Spellings of Zanayah

Zanayah is not the most common spelling — Aniyah is, with 17.8% against Zanayah's 0.16%.

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 Zanayah is used

Across 1910–2025, Zanayah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,334,398 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 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. Zanayah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zanayah around the world

Where Zanayah 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 & Wales
    2018–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Zanayah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,443
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,535
Best rank ever
#6,908
2020
Peak year
2009
17 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
288
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Zanayah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Zanayah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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