Zayah
#3,515 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zayah has been given to 861 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #3,515 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 65 recorded.
Babies named Zayah, 2025
1 in 75,300
Zayah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 75,300
- 44 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 36,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,515
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 52,226 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zayah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zayah was born before 2017 — so the typical Zayah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 835
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (432).
Is Zayah 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
- −719
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −376
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +249
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.07×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 67.7%
- Peak was 2021 (65)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.9% average annual change
Spellings of Zayah
Zayah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 70.4% against Zayah's 0.05%.
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 Zayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Zayah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 45,452 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 33,333
- 2Florida1 in 33,333
- 3Texas1 in 33,333
- 4New York1 in 50,000
- 5Georgia1 in 100,000
- 6Illinois1 in 100,000
- 7Ohio1 in 100,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
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.
Zayah around the world
Where Zayah 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 & Wales2013–2025#2,006in 2025
- France2025–2025#6,893in 2025
- Canada2015–2024#2,710in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Zayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.