girl's name

Zanyah

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 602

Zanyah is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 14 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2006, when 40 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 236,855 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 2000.

Zanyah over time

Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Zanyah by decade in the United States
Decade Births
2000s 234
2010s 251
2020s (to 2025) 98

How popular is Zanyah?

In 2025, Zanyah was given to 14 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Zanyah is used

England & Wales as Za'nyah #4,135 5 in 2021
United States #7,753 14 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Zanyah is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Za'nyah Za'nyah is Zanyah written with an apostrophe, recorded mostly in England and Wales. 16

Names that peaked alongside Zanyah

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Zanyah also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Zanyah over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Zanyah

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Zanyah — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Zanyah

How popular is the name Zanyah?

In 2025, Zanyah was given to 14 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Zanyah a girl's or a boy's name?

Zanyah is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Zanyah most popular?

Zanyah peaked in 2006, when 40 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Zanyah a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Zanyah currently ranks #7,753 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.