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Zamiah vs Zamya

American parents have registered 1,218 Zamyas since 1880, against 511 Zamiahs. Zamya is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zamiah Zamya

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

Zamya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Zamiah had 13 and Zamya had 17.

Side by side

  Zamiah Zamya
Total US births 5111,218
Most in one year 3682
Babies in 2025 1232
Estimated living today 5101,200
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20122009
Best rank 4,121st girls2,359th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd4,352nd
First recorded 19991998
Girls / boys 511 / 01,218 / 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: Zamiah and Zamya.