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Zaria

#945 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Zaria has been given to 11,277 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #945 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 568 recorded.

Babies named Zaria, 2025

1 in 12,100

Zaria over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaria: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaria means

Zaria is a given name.

The naming story behind Zaria

Wikidata records Zaria as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q4023881, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,277 girls were recorded with the name Zaria between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 568 in 2000; its best national rank was #479 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #861 in 2020 to #945 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #874 in 2015 to #945 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Zaria?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,100
274 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,870
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#945
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,388 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaria 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,388 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zarias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaria was born before 2009 — so the typical Zaria is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,277
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (4,326).

Is Zaria 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
−117
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−84
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−71
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.2%
Peak was 2000 (568)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#479
2000

Spellings of Zaria

Zaria is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 14.1% against Zaria's 0.28%.

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 Zaria is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaria was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 1,852 girls, against 1 in 4,220 across all states with data. It was least common in Kansas (1 in 25,000).

454 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 1,852
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 2,041
  3. 3Maryland1 in 2,273
  4. 4Michigan1 in 2,439
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 2,500
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 2,857
  7. 7Ohio1 in 2,857
  8. 8Virginia1 in 3,030

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.

Geographically, Zaria is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 57% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zaria around the world

Where Zaria 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
    1999–2025
    #1,315
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2020–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1961–2023
    #7,414
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zaria

People whose public names include Zaria, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zaria by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#945
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 84
Best rank ever
#479
2000
Peak year
2000
568 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,277
Count in 2025
274

Names similar to Zaria

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

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Names with a curve like Zaria

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zaria, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zaria

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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