Zyah
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- ZY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #3,711 for girls
Zyah is a name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 3,711th for girls in the US (40 babies).
Where does Zyah come from?
Modern: spelling of Zya; probably a respelling of Zia
Meaning borrowed from Zya.
Is Zyah a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Zyah has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 40 girls in the US.
How popular is Zyah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Zyah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 5 girls.
In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were given Zyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Zyah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
How popular is Zyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,711th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 40 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 40 girls in the US were named Zyah, making it the 3,711th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had the most girls named Zyah of any year since it first appeared, in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Zyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 328 girls in the US were given Zyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #799, up from #3,711 for this spelling alone.
Zyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,711 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,038 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,045 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,200 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,933 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,878 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,259 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,788 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,574 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,459 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,571 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
Names like Zyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Ayah, Nusaybah, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Hiba, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Zaniyah, Safaa
Other spellings of Zyah
Names related to Zyah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Zyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zyah, updated 20 October 2026.