Zaya
#1,309 for girls in 2025, 170 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 97.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 207 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,532since 1994
Zaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Zaya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,309 | 170 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,420 | 157 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,164 | 207 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,279 | 187 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,337 | 166 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,412 | 155 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #1,436 | 155 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,386 | 162 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #1,210 | 198 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #1,307 | 183 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #2,138 | 89 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #1,736 | 120 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,587 | 135 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,744 | 118 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | — | |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #9,265 | 5 |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zaya! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zaya is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#737 · 1 in 3,652
- Tennessee#940 · 1 in 5,186
- Georgia#1,044 · 1 in 6,025
- Michigan#1,265 · 1 in 8,435
- Illinois#1,416 · 1 in 9,829
Best ever in a state: #175 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #737 | 5 | 1 in 3,652 |
| Tennessee | #940 | 6 | 1 in 5,186 |
| Georgia | #1,044 | 8 | 1 in 6,025 |
| Michigan | #1,265 | 5 | 1 in 8,435 |
| Illinois | #1,416 | 6 | 1 in 9,829 |
| Texas | #1,789 | 12 | 1 in 13,898 |
| California | #1,940 | 12 | 1 in 17,472 |
| Florida | #2,003 | 5 | 1 in 16,746 |
| New York | #2,203 | 5 | 1 in 18,490 |
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See more about Zaya
- 111 spots since 2024 (#1,420 → #1,309)
- 103 spots since 2020 (#1,412 → #1,309)
- 829 spots since 2015 (#2,138 → #1,309)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2023 at #1,164 (207 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,752 girls born in 2023 were named Zaya (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,455 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 48.9% of all girls named Zaya (1,238) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 32 | #7,716 (1999) | #10,522 |
| 2000s | 220 | #5,113 (2005) | #5,749 |
| 2010s | 1,238 | #1,210 (2017) | #2,029 |
| 2020s | 1,042 | #1,164 (2023) | #1,320 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zaya in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 14,886 of them was named Zaya, which outranked 91.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,728Jacelyn121
- #1,728Sahana121
- #1,728Zaina121
- #1,736Zaya120
- #1,736Analeigh120
- #1,736Ayah120
- #1,736Ayvah120
- #1,746Annalisa119
- #1,746Anylah119
- #1,746Jackie119
Tied with 9 names at #1,736; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.