Zia vs Ziare
American parents have registered 3,550 Zias since 1880, against 636 Ziares. Zia is still ahead, with 157 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Zia Ziare
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
Zia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1998, when Zia had 28 and Ziare had 23.
Side by side
| Zia | Ziare | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,550 | 636 |
| Most in one year | 213 | 39 |
| Babies in 2025 | 157 | 18 |
| Estimated living today | 3,500 | 630 |
| Median age today | 10 | 16 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2006 |
| Best rank | 1,191st girls | 3,524th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,467th | 5,208th |
| First recorded | 1976 | 1993 |
| Girls / boys | 3,228 / 322 | 84 / 552 |
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 Ziares alive today are over 16; half the Zias are over 10. That is 6 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: Zia and Ziare.