Zanyiah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zanyiah has been given to 304 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Zanyiah, 2024
1 in 418,000
Zanyiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zanyiah?
Zanyiah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 203,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zanyiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zanyiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zanyiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zanyiah was born before 2014 — so the typical Zanyiah is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 59.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 304
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 59.5% of all recorded uses (181).
Is Zanyiah 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2010 (27)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.1% average annual change
Spellings of Zanyiah
Zanyiah is not the most common spelling — Zariah is, with 24.1% against Zanyiah's 0.52%.
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 Zanyiah is used
Across 1910–2025, Zanyiah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,073,158 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2North Carolina1 in —
- 3Texas1 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. Zanyiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zanyiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zanyiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zanyiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.