Zendaya Girl
How popular is Zendaya?
#1,186 girl name in 2025
195 baby girls were named Zendaya in the US in 2025, making it the 1186th most popular girl name.
Zendaya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,186 for girls (▼ 248 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 195 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-46% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #786 in 2015, #964 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (430 girls) |
| Highest rank | #678 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 2011 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zendaya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zendaya family of names ranked #975 for girls in 2025 (#824 the year before), with 212 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zendaya | 195 | 92% |
| Zendayah | 17 | 8% |
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 Zendaya is most popular
Babies named Zendaya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- South Dakota: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Ohio: 0.3 per 1,000 (72 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.3 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (66 girls)
- Florida: 0.3 per 1,000 (118 girls)
Zendaya by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zendaya
Questions
- Is Zendaya a boy or girl name?
- Zendaya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zendaya were girls.
- How popular is the name Zendaya?
- 195 baby girls were named Zendaya in the US in 2025, making it the 1186th most popular girl name.
- When was Zendaya most popular?
- Zendaya peaked in 2022, when 430 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #678 in 2022.
- How many people are named Zendaya?
- 3,873 babies have been named Zendaya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,857 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 7.
- Where is Zendaya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zendaya was most common in South Dakota, 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.