girls:
505 births since 1999
#5211 (9th percentile)
boys:
44 births since 2015
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
549 births since 1999
#7190 (7th percentile)
The name Zyah is the #7,190 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 549 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 7.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,211 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 505 births since 1999. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 2015.
Zyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for girls and 2015 for boys).
The name Zyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 87.8% of babies named Zyah were girls.
For girls, Zyah reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #927) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zyah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #916 (3.3% percentile) with 21 births per million.
For boys, Zyah reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #913) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zyah ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 85.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zyah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Zyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Zyah is pronounced as ZAI-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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