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Zamiah vs Zamora

American parents have registered 1,499 Zamoras since 1880, against 511 Zamiahs. Zamora is still ahead, with 130 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zamiah Zamora

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 29 years in which either name was published, Zamora for 25 years and Zamiah for 4 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Zamiah Zamora
Total US births 5111,499
Most in one year 36130
Babies in 2025 12130
Estimated living today 5101,500
Median age today 136
Peak year 20122025
Best rank 4,121st girls1,605th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd1,605th
First recorded 19991992
Girls / boys 511 / 01,499 / 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 Zamiahs alive today are over 13; half the Zamoras are over 6. That is 7 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: Zamiah and Zamora.