Zarya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZAR-ya
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,409 for girls
Zarya is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “dawn”. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
What does Zarya mean?
Slavic: from the Slavic word zarya
“dawn”
From the Slavic word for dawn; Zarya was also the first module of the International Space Station.
Is Zarya a girl's or a boy's name?
Zarya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zarya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Zarya, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Zarya than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Zarya in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zarya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,558 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,761 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,593 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,241 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,451 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,922 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,143 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,809 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,623 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,420 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,555 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,680 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,481 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,127 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,891 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,202 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
Names like Zarya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaya, Zayla, Zainab, Safa, Zya, Zaniyah, Zaira, Zahara, Zamira, Salem, Zaina, Aaliyah
Names related to Zarya
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
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, “Zarya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zarya, updated 20 October 2026.