Zyliah

#14,935 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Zyliah has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #14,935 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Zyliah, 2025

1 in 553,000

Zyliah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,935
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zyliah 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zyliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zyliahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zyliah was born before 2017 — so the typical Zyliah is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
58.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 58.9% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Zyliah 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
−1,467
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−461
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2010 (11)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,443
2010

Spellings of Zyliah

Zyliah is not the most common spelling — Zariah is, with 13.9% against Zyliah's 0.09%.

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.

Zyliah around the world

Where Zyliah 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.

  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zyliah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,935
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,443
2010
Peak year
2010
11 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Zyliah

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Sibling names for Zyliah

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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