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Zianna vs Ziara

American parents have registered 699 Ziannas since 1880, against 534 Ziaras. Zianna is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zianna against Ziara, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zianna Ziara

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 33 years in which either name was published, Zianna for 24 years and Ziara for 9 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Zianna Ziara
Total US births 699534
Most in one year 3831
Babies in 2025 3117
Estimated living today 690530
Median age today 1115
Peak year 20142005
Best rank 3,925th girls4,373rd girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th6,546th
First recorded 19941992
Girls / boys 699 / 0534 / 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 Ziaras alive today are over 15; half the Ziannas are over 11. That is 4 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: Zianna and Ziara.