Zia

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Zia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Zia: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #556, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
62times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#556highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1999	#1970
2000	#1688
2001	#2023
2002	#1928
2003	#2436
2004	#1715
2005	#2438
2006	#1386
2007	#1573
2008	#1447
2009	#1248
2010	#1257
2011	#1149
2012	#1150
2013	#1639
2014	#1628
2015	#1961
2016	#1749
2017	#1457
2018	#1393
2019	#1349
2020	#1065
2021	#1351
2022	#1215
2023	#981
2024	#1097

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #638 among girls in Scotland, #1097 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2021–2025
Highest recorded position: #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2021–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Zia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 231 births with the name.

Zia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2863 (1996)	#1160 (2004)	#5119 (2024)	29 of 29	231 (1996–2024)	16 (2004)
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#981 (2023)	#1097 (2024)	27 of 28	507 (1997–2024)	35 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#883 (2021)	#556 (2024)	#885 (2025)	5 of 5	19 (2021–2025)	6 (2024)

Zia by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zia in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	4 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	95	10 of 10	10
2010s	85	10 of 10	9
2020s	33	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #556 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Zia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1097	31	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#981	35	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1215	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1065	31	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2228	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2728	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1393	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1457	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2324	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1961	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2150	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1639	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1150	29	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1149	29	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2039	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1257	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2629	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1447	19	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1386	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1715	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1160	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1771	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #556, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 35 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Leya · #555, 29y
Ameer · #559, 30y
Ayaz · #560, 29y
Esa · #549, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Avi · #556, 30y
Kareena · #556, 25y
Elicia · #557, 29y
Elliana · #555, 25y

Zia was ranked #556 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Zia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zia without appearing here.

Zia moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3824 and #3824 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1928 and #4137.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1386 and #3548.
Pauline Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #1796 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1386 and #3548.
Therese Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #2084 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1386 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Zia

Daithi Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #3112 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #5119 and #3254.
Sander Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2324 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #5119 and #3688.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #1461.
Gunnar Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2324 and #3040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2693 and #1786.

Moved the opposite way to Zia

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Zia

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zia went from #2863 to #5119 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #556 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zia

Zia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zia across 3 official records

Zia by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zia appears in

Popularity data

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Zia across 3 official records

Zia by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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