Zia

#1,467 for girls in 2025, 146 births · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to girls 90.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2024 · 200 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,228
since 1976

Zia over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,467146#7,19411
2024#1,191200#6,46913
2023#1,255183#7,28911
2022#1,304181#4,57022
2021#1,419152#7,08911
2020#1,357161#7,50210
2019#1,218192#5,15318
2018#1,532142#6,03614
2017#1,761119#7,09511
2016#1,560143#8,1469
2015#1,643130#5,99914
2014#1,714122#6,30713
2013#1,587135#5,40416
2012#1,651129#5,48216
2011#1,840109#5,43316
2010#2,31382#6,35913
2009#2,11995#8,9858
2008#2,60971#5,76715
2007#2,05999#8,1739
2006#2,37579—
2005#3,08151#10,1516
2004#2,74259#11,3565
2003#2,84054#8,6437
2002#3,59537#8,4567
2001#2,92449#10,5565
2000#2,77752#8,2097
1999#3,44336—
1998#4,02328—
1997#4,50823—
1996#4,45323#7,9716
1995#4,84620—
1994#5,98415#6,9687
1993#4,82620—
1992#9,4918—
1991#5,65916#7,2716
1990#6,86712#7,1786
1989#6,16013—
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1987#8,7787—
1986#8,5237#6,7215
1985#10,6775#6,5235
1984#9,1446—
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1982#8,2247—
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First appearance
1976

The first year at least five girls were named Zia! It came in at #9,284, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zia is popular in 1998

No state had 5 or more girls named Zia in 1998, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zia
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 276 spots since 2024 (#1,191 → #1,467)
  • 110 spots since 2020 (#1,357 → #1,467)
  • 176 spots since 2015 (#1,643 → #1,467)
Rise & fade · girls
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1976
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,191 (200 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,101
  • Highest: 1 in 8,101 girls born in 2024 were named Zia (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 11,009 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 40.4% of all girls named Zia (1,303) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s5#9,284 (1976)#9,284
1980s50#6,160 (1989)#8,843
1990s201#3,443 (1999)#5,410
2000s646#2,059 (2007)#2,712
2010s1,303#1,218 (2019)#1,682
2020s1,023#1,191 (2024)#1,332

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.

Zia in 1998

girls
#4,023
28 births · 1 in 63,105 girls

Top girls' names in 1998

  1. #1Emily26,188
  2. #2Hannah21,376
  3. #3Samantha20,195
  4. #4Sarah19,898
  5. #5Ashley19,875
  6. #6Alexis19,778
  7. #7Taylor18,576
  8. #8Jessica18,239
  9. #9Madison17,787
  10. #10Elizabeth15,193
  11. #4,023Zia28
More about 1998

girls

1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 63,105 of them was named Zia, which outranked 75.8% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zia
  1. #3,914Yaneth29
  2. #3,914Yocelyn29
  3. #3,914Zaina29
  4. #4,023Zia28
  5. #4,023Adamari28
  6. #4,023Agatha28
  7. #4,023Aleyna28
  8. #4,142Aiesha27
  9. #4,142Aleeza27
  10. #4,142Alejandrina27

Tied with 118 names at #4,023; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,123Calista#2,820 → #697
  2. ↑ 1,165Ireland#1,983 → #818
  3. ↑ 1,158Abril#2,116 → #958
  4. ↑ 755Mya#993 → #238
  5. ↑ 619Ally#1,036 → #417
Fallers
  1. ↓ 586Yulissa#424 → #1,010
  2. ↓ 462Moesha#943 → #1,405
  3. ↓ 397Yulisa#985 → #1,382
  4. ↓ 376Tonya#905 → #1,281
  5. ↓ 347Xena#765 → #1,112

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1998 →