girls:
3.4k births since 2011
#2973 (48th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 2011
#4696 (39th percentile)
The name Zendaya is the #4,696 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,387 recorded births since 2011. This represents the 39.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,973 (48.0% percentile) for all time with 3,387 births since 2011.
Zendaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2011 (first recorded for girls in 2011).
For girls, Zendaya reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 41.9% percentile (ranked #557) with 239 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 239 births per million (ranked 41.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zendaya ranks #636 for girls (32.9% percentile) with 188 births per million, which is 78.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zendaya".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Zendaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.7% confident that Zendaya is pronounced as zehn-DAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZEHN-day-uh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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