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Zariyah vs Zarria

American parents have registered 7,569 Zariyahs since 1880, against 604 Zarrias. Zariyah is still ahead, with 448 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zariyah against Zarria, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zariyah 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, Zariyah for 24 years and Zarria for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Zariyah Zarria
Total US births 7,569604
Most in one year 50549
Babies in 2025 448under 5
Estimated living today 7,500600
Median age today 821
Peak year 20222000
Best rank 593rd girls2,903rd girls
Rank in 2025 645thunranked
First recorded 19961995
Girls / boys 7,569 / 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 Zariyahs are over 8. That is 13 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: Zariyah and Zarria.