Xayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #7,883 for girls
Xayah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Xayah mean?
Modern: modern invented name
Shares its spelling with Xayah, a character in the video game League of Legends.
Is Xayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Xayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Xayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Xayah, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.
2025 had fewer girls named Xayah than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Xayah in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 328 girls in the US were given Xayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #799, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.
Xayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
Names like Xayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaliyah Zaniyah Zalayah Zayla Aziyah Alaiyah Amoura Zaya Kaliyah Kamiyah Safa Jaziyah
Other spellings of Xayah
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Xayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/xayah, updated 20 October 2026.