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Zoha vs Zohaib

American parents have registered 1,108 Zohas since 1880, against 523 Zohaibs. Zoha is still ahead, with 51 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zoha against Zohaib, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zoha Zohaib

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 38 years in which either name was published, Zoha for 27 years and Zohaib for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Zoha Zohaib
Total US births 1,108523
Most in one year 6223
Babies in 2025 5116
Estimated living today 1,100520
Median age today 1117
Peak year 20222005
Best rank 2,756th girls3,941st boys
Rank in 2025 3,130th5,608th
First recorded 19931986
Girls / boys 1,108 / 00 / 523

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 Zohaibs alive today are over 17; half the Zohas are over 11. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Zoha Zohaib
England and Wales 1,044651
France 9010
Scotland 5523

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zoha and Zohaib.