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Zariah vs Zarria

American parents have registered 14,313 Zariahs since 1880, against 604 Zarrias. Zariah is still ahead, with 701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zariah against Zarria, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zariah Zarria

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

Zariah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1992 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1995, when Zariah had 8 and Zarria had 6.

Side by side

  Zariah Zarria
Total US births 14,313604
Most in one year 76149
Babies in 2025 701under 5
Estimated living today 14,000600
Median age today 1021
Peak year 20232000
Best rank 407th girls2,903rd girls
Rank in 2025 449thunranked
First recorded 19921995
Girls / boys 14,164 / 149604 / 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 Zarrias alive today are over 21; half the Zariahs are over 10. That is 11 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: Zariah and Zarria.