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Zyra vs Zyro

American parents have registered 1,186 Zyras since 1880, against 61 Zyros. Zyra is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyra against Zyro, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyra Zyro

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

Zyra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Zyra had 118 and Zyro had 37.

Side by side

  Zyra Zyro
Total US births 1,18661
Most in one year 11837
Babies in 2025 11837
Estimated living today 1,20060
Median age today 60
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 1,721st girls3,181st boys
Rank in 2025 1,721st3,181st
First recorded 19982024
Girls / boys 1,186 / 00 / 61

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 Zyras alive today are over 6; half the Zyros have not had a first birthday. That is 6 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: Zyra and Zyro.