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Zyra

#1,732 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zyra has been given to 1,186 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #1,732 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Zyra, 2025

1 in 28,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zyra: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zyra means

Zyra is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zyra is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,186 girls were recorded with the name Zyra between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,732 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,415 in 2020 to #1,732 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,128 in 2015 to #1,732 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 Zyra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,100
118 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,732
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,475 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zyra 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,475 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zyra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zyras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zyra was born before 2019 — so the typical Zyra is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,186
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (560).

Is Zyra 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
+63
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+683
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,396
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (118)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,732
2025

Spellings of Zyra

Zyra is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 18.4% against Zyra'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 Zyra is used

Across 2016–2025, Zyra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 22,424 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Texas1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 20,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 50,000

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.

Zyra around the world

Where Zyra 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
    2008–2025
    #863
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024

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

Zyra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,732
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 683
Best rank ever
#1,732
2025
Peak year
2025
118 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,186
Count in 2025
118

Names similar to Zyra

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

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Sibling names for Zyra

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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