girls:
1.2k births since 1999
#4499 (21st percentile)
boys:
47 births since 2009
#4539 (1st percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1999
#6474 (16th percentile)
The name Ziyah is the #6,474 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,267 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 16.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,499 (21.3% percentile) for all time with 1,220 births since 1999. For boys, it ranks #4,539 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 2009.
Ziyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for girls and 2009 for boys).
The name Ziyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ziyah reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #860) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 49 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ziyah ranks #872 for girls (7.9% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 93.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ziyah reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #911) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ziyah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ziyah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 17 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Zia" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Zia..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ziyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Ziyah is pronounced as ZEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZAI-uh, at 43.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Z IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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