Zendayah

#6,828 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Zendayah has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #6,828 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Zendayah, 2025

1 in 195,000

Zendayah over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Zendayah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,828
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zendayah 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zendayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zendayahs were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
65.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
212
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 65.1% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Zendayah 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
+4,279
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,405
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−384
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.3%
Peak was 2016 (22)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,788
2019

Spellings of Zendayah

Zendayah is not the most common spelling — Zendaya is, with 94.8% against Zendayah's 5.2%.

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.

Zendayah around the world

Where Zendayah 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
    2022–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022

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

Zendayah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,828
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,405
Best rank ever
#5,788
2019
Peak year
2016
22 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Zendayah

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

Sibling names for Zendayah

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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