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Zya vs Zyan

American parents have registered 2,074 Zyans since 1880, against 1,301 Zyas. Zyan is still ahead, with 112 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zya against Zyan, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zya Zyan

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 30 years in which either name was published, Zyan for 29 years and Zya for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Zya Zyan
Total US births 1,3012,074
Most in one year 144159
Babies in 2025 102112
Estimated living today 1,3002,100
Median age today 69
Peak year 20222024
Best rank 1,506th girls1,243rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,902nd1,539th
First recorded 19991996
Girls / boys 1,301 / 0325 / 1,749

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 Zyans alive today are over 9; half the Zyas are over 6. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Zya Zyan
France 345300
England and Wales 28191

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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