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Zamarion vs Zamiyah

American parents have registered 1,277 Zamiyahs since 1880, against 1,206 Zamarions. Zamiyah is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zamarion 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 26 years in which either name was published, Zamiyah for 17 years and Zamarion for 9 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Zamarion Zamiyah
Total US births 1,2061,277
Most in one year 8084
Babies in 2025 3741
Estimated living today 1,2001,300
Median age today 1311
Peak year 20072012
Best rank 1,811th boys2,232nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,181st3,645th
First recorded 20022000
Girls / boys 0 / 1,2061,277 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Zamarions alive today are over 13; half the Zamiyahs are over 11. That is 2 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: Zamarion and Zamiyah.