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Zaya

#1,317 in 2025Girls' name

Fate, destiny

Zaya has been given to 2,590 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,317 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 207 recorded.

Babies named Zaya, 2025

1 in 19,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaya: meaning, origin, and history

Fate, destiny

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,532 girls were recorded with the name Zaya between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 207 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,167 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,417 in 2020 to #1,317 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,151 in 2015 to #1,317 in 2025.

In the United States, 58 boys were recorded with the name Zaya between 1997 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2018; its best national rank was #8,800 in 2018.

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 Zaya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,500
170 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,450
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,317
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,518 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaya 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zayas were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,532
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (1,238).

Is Zaya 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
+107
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+100
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+834
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.91×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.1%
Peak was 2023 (207)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,167
2023

Spellings of Zaya

Zaya is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 11.3% against Zaya's 0.07%.

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 Zaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Zaya was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 10,617 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 5,000
  2. 2California1 in 6,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 7,143
  4. 4Georgia1 in 7,692
  5. 5Utah1 in 7,692
  6. 6Michigan1 in 8,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 9,091
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 9,091

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.

Zaya around the world

Where Zaya 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
    2012–2025
    #1,110
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1954–2025
    #1,898
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #809
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zaya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,317
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 100
Best rank ever
#1,167
2023
Peak year
2023
207 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,532
Count in 2025
170

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,800
2018
Peak year
2018
9 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zaya

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

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Names with a curve like Zaya

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

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Sibling names for Zaya

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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