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Zariah

#450 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Zaria

Zariah has been given to 14,313 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #450 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 750 recorded.

Babies named Zariah, 2025

1 in 4,810

Zariah over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zariah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Zaria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zariah means

Zariah is a variant of Zaria.

Origin, language, and formation

Zariah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zaria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,164 girls were recorded with the name Zariah between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 750 in 2023; its best national rank was #407 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #460 in 2020 to #450 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #506 in 2015 to #450 in 2025.

In the United States, 149 boys were recorded with the name Zariah between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,650 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,013 in 2020 to #7,182 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zariah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,810
689 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,330
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#450
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,336 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zariah 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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,336 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zariah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zariahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zariah was born before 2015 — so the typical Zariah is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (6,483).

Is Zariah 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
−14
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+10
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+56
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.9%
Peak was 2023 (750)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#407
2023

Spellings of Zariah

Zariah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 46.7% against Zariah's 0.60%.

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 Zariah is used

Across 2016–2025, Zariah was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 870 girls, against 1 in 2,026 across all states with data. It was least common in South Dakota (1 in 5,882).

17115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 870
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 917
  3. 3Nevada1 in 1,149
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 1,163
  5. 5Alabama1 in 1,250
  6. 6Georgia1 in 1,389
  7. 7Arizona1 in 1,429
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 1,493

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, Zariah is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 20% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zariah around the world

Where Zariah 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
    2006–2025
    #973
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2021–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #835
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zariah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#450
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 10
Best rank ever
#407
2023
Peak year
2023
750 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,164
Count in 2025
689

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,182
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,831
Best rank ever
#5,650
2024
Peak year
2024
17 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Zariah

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

ZarriahZaryiahZariaMoriahZariyahSariahZaraZariyaZarinaAriahMaliahKeziahZarahJaniahNeriahNariahAzariahZaryahTaliahAnaiahZaraiahAliahKaliahJamiah

Names with a curve like Zariah

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

KaliyahAylinNylahGracelynAverieMadilynnAleenaAnnaliseSienaLeylaAnayaMaliyah

Sibling names for Zariah

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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