Ziya vs Ziyad

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ziya Ziyad

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 42 years in which either name was published, Ziya for 22 years and Ziyad for 20 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1976–1998 Ziyad ahead
• 1999 Ziya ahead
• 2000 Ziyad ahead
• 2001–2002 Ziya ahead
• 2003 Ziyad ahead
• 2004–2010 Ziya ahead
• 2011–2012 Ziyad ahead
• 2013 Ziya ahead
• 2014 Ziyad ahead
• 2015–2025 Ziya ahead

Side by side

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 Ziyads alive today are over 11; half the Ziyas are over 7. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Ziya Georgia (3.4×), Texas (3.1×), Maryland (2.6×)
• Ziyad New York (4.3×), California (2.0×), Texas (1.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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