Zaya
Zaya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 157 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1570.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2023207 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1994
- 2,417people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,359 girls have been named Zaya in the United States since 1994, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 207 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 52%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 58 boys have also been given it, 2.4% of the total.
By decade
In 2023, its biggest year
Zaya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2023 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2023.
Names that rose and fell with Zaya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adalinapeak 2024
- Emerypeak 2024
- Lynnleepeak 2024
- Brynnleepeak 2021
- Journeipeak 2021
- Vaydapeak 2021
- Seraphinapeak 2024
- Anorapeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.