girls:
48 births since 1998
#5668 (1st percentile)
overall:
48 births since 1998
#7691 (1st percentile)
The name Zahia is the #7,691 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 48 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,668 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1998.
Zahia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for girls in 1998). Birth data for Zahia is available in 8 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Zahia reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #935) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zahia ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 92.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zahia".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Zahia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.4% confident that Zahia is pronounced as ZAH-hee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zah-HEE-uh, at 25.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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