Zaya Girl
How popular is Zaya?
#1,309 girl name in 2025
170 baby girls were named Zaya in the US in 2025, making it the 1309th most popular girl name.
Zaya popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,309 for girls (▲ 111 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 170 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+91% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,138 in 2015, #1,412 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (207 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,164 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 2% boys, 98% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zaya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zaya family of names ranked #810 for girls in 2025 (#793 the year before), with 296 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Zaya is most popular
Babies named Zaya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.2 per 1,000 (27 girls)
- Oregon: 0.2 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (140 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (66 girls)
Zaya by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zaya
Questions
- Is Zaya a boy or girl name?
- Zaya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 98% of babies named Zaya were girls.
- How popular is the name Zaya?
- 170 baby girls were named Zaya in the US in 2025, making it the 1309th most popular girl name.
- When was Zaya most popular?
- Zaya peaked in 2023, when 207 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,164 in 2023.
- How many people are named Zaya?
- 2,590 babies have been named Zaya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,578 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Zaya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zaya was most common in Hawaii, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.