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Ziah vs Ziaire

American parents have registered 1,246 Ziahs since 1880, against 952 Ziaires. But in 2025 it was Ziaire that was commoner, 70 babies to 59.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ziah Ziaire

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 31 years in which either name was published, Ziah for 22 years and Ziaire for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Ziah Ziaire
Total US births 1,246952
Most in one year 8283
Babies in 2025 5970
Estimated living today 1,200940
Median age today 97
Peak year 20212020
Best rank 3,069th girls1,895th boys
Rank in 2025 3,577th2,091st
First recorded 19981993
Girls / boys 917 / 32979 / 873

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 Ziahs alive today are over 9; half the Ziaires are over 7. 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: Ziah and Ziaire.