girls:
1.2k births since 2000
#4528 (21st percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 2000
#6550 (15th percentile)
The name Zamiyah is the #6,550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,190 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 15.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,528 (20.8% percentile) for all time with 1,190 births since 2000.
Zamiyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (first recorded for girls in 2000).
For girls, Zamiyah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #858) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 43 births per million (ranked 8.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Zamiyah ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 64.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zamiyah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Zamiyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.1% confident that Zamiyah is pronounced as zuh-MAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zuh-MEE-uh, at 29.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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