girls:
12.7k births since 1992
#1384 (76th percentile)
boys:
119 births since 2002
#4467 (3rd percentile)
overall:
12.9k births since 1992
#2322 (70th percentile)
The name Zariah is the #2,322 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,865 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 70.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,384 (75.8% percentile) for all time with 12,746 births since 1992. For boys, it ranks #4,467 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 119 births since 2002.
Zariah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (1992 for girls and 2002 for boys).
The name Zariah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Zariah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 59.7% percentile (ranked #382) with 423 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 423 births per million (ranked 59.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Zariah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #382 (59.7% percentile) with 423 births per million.
For boys, Zariah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #916) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zariah ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 86.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zariah".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Zariah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.4% confident that Zariah is pronounced as zuh-RAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zuh-REE-uh, at 17.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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