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Zariyah

#645 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zariyah has been given to 7,569 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #645 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 505 recorded.

Babies named Zariyah, 2025

1 in 7,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zariyah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zariyah means

Zariyah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zariyah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,569 girls were recorded with the name Zariyah between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 505 in 2022; its best national rank was #593 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #698 in 2020 to #645 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #747 in 2015 to #645 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 Zariyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,400
448 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,590
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#645
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,130 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zariyah 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 5,130 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zariyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zariyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zariyah was born before 2017 — so the typical Zariyah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,569
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (3,642).

Is Zariyah 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
−23
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+53
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+102
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.7%
Peak was 2022 (505)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#593
2022

Spellings of Zariyah

Zariyah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 18.7% against Zariyah's 1.2%.

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 Zariyah is used

Across 2016–2025, Zariyah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,000 girls, against 1 in 3,270 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in 25,000).

4100 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 1,266
  3. 3Georgia1 in 1,515
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 1,563
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 1,613
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 1,923
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 2,222
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 2,273

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, Zariyah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 70% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zariyah around the world

Where Zariyah 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
    2010–2025
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024

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

Zariyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#645
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 53
Best rank ever
#593
2022
Peak year
2022
505 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,569
Count in 2025
448

Names similar to Zariyah

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

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Names with a curve like Zariyah

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

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Sibling names for Zariyah

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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