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Zarya

Zarya reached its high-water mark in 2022 at number 3,595, and has been recorded 667 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,410th. About 660 Zaryas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Zarya

By the numbers

Total US births
667
Estimated living today
660
Median age today
10
Peak year
2022
Best rank
3,595th
Rank in 2025
5,410th
First recorded
1997

How old the living Zaryas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 667 babies given the name since 1997, about 660 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 510 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Zarya is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Zarya is most concentrated in Texas (6.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2022

The most popular girls’ names the year Zarya peaked:

All the names of 2022

Zarya elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Zarya 5 3,961st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.