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Zariya vs Zarria

American parents have registered 1,981 Zariyas since 1880, against 604 Zarrias. Zariya is still ahead, with 82 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zariya against Zarria, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zariya Zarria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 31 years in which either name was published, Zariya for 22 years and Zarria for 9 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Zariya Zarria
Total US births 1,981604
Most in one year 10949
Babies in 2025 82under 5
Estimated living today 2,000600
Median age today 1221
Peak year 20112000
Best rank 1,840th girls2,903rd girls
Rank in 2025 2,239thunranked
First recorded 19951995
Girls / boys 1,981 / 0604 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zarrias alive today are over 21; half the Zariyas are over 12. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zariya and Zarria.