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Ziya

#1,941 in 2025Girls' name

Splendour, light, glow

Ziya has been given to 1,896 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,941 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Ziya, 2025

1 in 33,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ziya: meaning, origin, and history

Splendour, light, glow

Arabic

What Ziya means

Ziya means “splendour, light, glow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ziya is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Ziya comes through Ottoman Turkish ضیا and Arabic ضِيَاء.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,828 girls were recorded with the name Ziya between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 147 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,489 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,790 in 2020 to #1,941 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,127 in 2015 to #1,941 in 2025.

In the United States, 68 boys were recorded with the name Ziya between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2018; its best national rank was #9,660 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,038 in 2020 to #13,913 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,630 in 2015 to #13,913 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 Ziya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,200
100 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,941
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,980 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ziya 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 22,980 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ziya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ziyas were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,828
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (767).

Is Ziya 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
−244
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−151
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,186
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.85×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.0%
Peak was 2022 (147)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,489
2022

Spellings of Ziya

Ziya is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 26.5% against Ziya'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 Ziya is used

Across 2016–2025, Ziya was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 14,917 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 5,556
  2. 2Maryland1 in 6,667
  3. 3Georgia1 in 8,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 8,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 11,111
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 12,500
  7. 7New York1 in 12,500
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 14,286

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.

Ziya around the world

Where Ziya 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
    2009–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #2,966
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ziya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,941
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 151
Best rank ever
#1,489
2022
Peak year
2022
147 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,828
Count in 2025
100

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,913
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 125
Best rank ever
#9,660
2018
Peak year
2018
8 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
68
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ziya

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

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Sibling names for Ziya

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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