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Zamar vs Zamiyah

American parents have registered 1,277 Zamiyahs since 1880, against 624 Zamars. Zamiyah is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zamar against Zamiyah, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zamar Zamiyah

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, Zamiyah for 22 years and Zamar for 8 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Zamar Zamiyah
Total US births 6241,277
Most in one year 4284
Babies in 2025 2441
Estimated living today 6201,300
Median age today 1111
Peak year 20232012
Best rank 3,293rd boys2,232nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,249th3,645th
First recorded 19902000
Girls / boys 6 / 6181,277 / 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.

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