girls:
2.5k births since 1960
#3459 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.5k births since 1960
#5332 (31st percentile)
The name Ziva is the #5,332 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,508 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 31.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,459 (39.5% percentile) for all time with 2,508 births since 1960.
Ziva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (first recorded for girls in 1960). Birth data for Ziva is available in 25 out of the 64 years between 1960 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, Ziva reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 19.9% percentile (ranked #753) with 99 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 103 births per million (ranked 18.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ziva ranks #782 for girls (17.4% percentile) with 97 births per million, which is 94.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ziva".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ziva is pronounced as ZEE-vuh, which has 2 syllables.
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