Zyanya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- zee-AHN-yah
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Zyanya is a girls' name, meaning “always, forever”. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Zyanya mean?
Zapotec (Mexico) word
“always, forever”
A Mexican name from the Zapotec language of Oaxaca; it is the name of the narrator's wife in Gary Jennings's novel Aztec.
Is Zyanya a girl's or a boy's name?
Zyanya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zyanya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,916th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 4% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Zyanya, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.
Half of all the girls named Zyanya in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zyanya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,870 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,470 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,503 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,259 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,733 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 21 | #5,991 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,680 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,796 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,706 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,761 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
Names like Zyanya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Aaliyah, Zahara, Zamira, Hadassah, Kaliyah, Zaya, Zainab, Zaliyah, Amira, Safa, Zayla
Names related to Zyanya
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, “Zyanya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zyanya, updated 20 October 2026.