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Zyair vs Zyanya

American parents have registered 3,191 Zyairs since 1880, against 600 Zyanyas. Zyair is still ahead, with 340 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyair against Zyanya, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyair Zyanya

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 36 years in which either name was published, Zyair for 28 years and Zyanya for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Zyair Zyanya
Total US births 3,191600
Most in one year 39733
Babies in 2025 34020
Estimated living today 3,200600
Median age today 412
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 684th boys4,260th girls
Rank in 2025 757th5,917th
First recorded 19921986
Girls / boys 142 / 3,049600 / 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 Zyanyas alive today are over 12; half the Zyairs are over 4. That is 8 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.

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