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Zavia

#9,445 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Xavier

Zavia has been given to 268 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #9,445 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Zavia, 2025

1 in 301,000

Zavia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zavia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Xavier

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zavia means

Zavia is a feminine form of Xavier.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zavia → Xavier. The family’s meaning is “the new house”, recorded in the naming reference for Xavier.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Xavier.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 262 girls were recorded with the name Zavia between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,954 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,955 in 2020 to #9,445 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #19,060 in 2015 to #9,445 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Zavia between 1996 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1996; its best national rank was #8,998 in 1996.

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 Zavia?

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
#9,445
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zavia 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 Zavia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zavias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zavia was born before 2018 — so the typical Zavia is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
262
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Choose a decade

2020s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Zavia 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
−3,289
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,490
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+9,615
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.7%
Peak was 2021 (27)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,954
2021

Spellings of Zavia

Zavia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 34.0% against Zavia's 0.02%.

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 Zavia is used

Across 1910–2025, Zavia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,046,820 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Zavia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zavia around the world

Where Zavia 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
    2024–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019

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.

Zavia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,445
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,490
Best rank ever
#4,954
2021
Peak year
2021
27 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
262
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,998
1996
Peak year
1996
6 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zavia

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

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Sibling names for Zavia

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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