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Ziah vs Ziare

American parents have registered 1,246 Ziahs since 1880, against 636 Ziares. Ziah is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ziah 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

Of the 32 years in which either name was published, Ziah for 21 years and Ziare for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ziah Ziare
Total US births 1,246636
Most in one year 8239
Babies in 2025 5918
Estimated living today 1,200630
Median age today 916
Peak year 20212006
Best rank 3,069th girls3,524th boys
Rank in 2025 3,577th5,208th
First recorded 19981993
Girls / boys 917 / 32984 / 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 Ziahs are over 9. 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: Ziah and Ziare.