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Zya vs Zyaire

American parents have registered 9,529 Zyaires since 1880, against 1,301 Zyas. Zyaire is still ahead, with 1,097 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zya against Zyaire, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zya Zyaire

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

Zyaire has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Zya had 27 and Zyaire had 65.

Side by side

  Zya Zyaire
Total US births 1,3019,529
Most in one year 1441,160
Babies in 2025 1021,097
Estimated living today 1,3009,500
Median age today 64
Peak year 20222024
Best rank 1,506th girls298th boys
Rank in 2025 1,902nd317th
First recorded 19991994
Girls / boys 1,301 / 0722 / 8,807

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 Zyas alive today are over 6; half the Zyaires are over 4. That is 2 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 Zya Zyaire
England and Wales 28118

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