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Zyah vs Zyanna

American parents have registered 804 Zyannas since 1880, against 630 Zyahs. But in 2025 it was Zyah that was commoner, 40 babies to 29.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyah against Zyanna, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyah Zyanna

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 28 years in which either name was published, Zyanna for 21 years and Zyah for 7 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Zyah Zyanna
Total US births 630804
Most in one year 4551
Babies in 2025 4029
Estimated living today 630800
Median age today 810
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 3,712th girls3,145th girls
Rank in 2025 3,712th4,661st
First recorded 19991998
Girls / boys 581 / 49804 / 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 Zyannas alive today are over 10; half the Zyahs are over 8. 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 Zyah Zyanna
England and Wales 256

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: Zyah and Zyanna.