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Ziaire vs Ziana

American parents have registered 952 Ziaires since 1880, against 590 Zianas. Ziaire is still ahead, with 70 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ziaire Ziana

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, Ziaire for 25 years and Ziana for 7 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Ziaire Ziana
Total US births 952590
Most in one year 8336
Babies in 2025 7023
Estimated living today 940590
Median age today 710
Peak year 20202021
Best rank 1,895th boys4,014th girls
Rank in 2025 2,091st5,410th
First recorded 19931994
Girls / boys 79 / 873590 / 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 Zianas alive today are over 10; half the Ziaires are over 7. That is 3 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: Ziaire and Ziana.