Zaya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Zaya: Recorded every year since 2012, its highest recorded position is #556, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
14years from first to last
#556highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#4171
2013	#4050
2014	#3514
2015	#3615
2016	#2547
2017	#1733
2018	#2187
2019	#1782
2020	#1449
2021	#1128
2022	#746
2023	#647
2024	#869

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 2012 to 2024.

In 2024: #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #869 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2012–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2012
First recorded at #4171 among girls in England and Wales in 2012 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2020–2025
Highest recorded position: #556 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2024 (recorded 2020–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Zaya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 2012, and has registered 275 births with the name.

Zaya across 2 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.

Zaya'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 · Girls	#4171 (2012)	#647 (2023)	#869 (2024)	13 of 13	275 (2012–2024)	56 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#834 (2020)	#556 (2024)	#608 (2025)	4 of 6	19 (2020–2025)	6 (2024)

Zaya 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 2 regions, from 2012 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #556 in Republic of Ireland in 2024.

Zaya'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	#869	42	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#647	56	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#746	49	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1733	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified

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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2012 and 2025, ranked in 14 years of that period.

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

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 8 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.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Zavier · #791, 28y
Zaviyar · #287, 15y
Zayaan · #264, 23y
Zayah · #1325, 12y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Miroslava · #556, 14y
Majka · #555, 11y
Medeea · #555, 12y
Si · #559, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Eloah · #556, 8y
Medeea · #555, 12y
Gabriels · #548, 13y
Amayra · #565, 10y

Zaya 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.

Zaya 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 Zaya without appearing here.

Zaya moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #5591.
Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3615 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2547 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3615 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2547 and #5785.
Mona Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1887 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Zaya

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1733 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #1436.

Moved the opposite way to Zaya

Abigail Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 while Abigail went from #44 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 while Aimee went from #153 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 while Aisling went from #1150 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 while Alex went from #916 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Zaya

Ada Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 and Ada from #384 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 and Alma from #749 to #234.
Aria Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 and Aria from #294 to #35.
Astrid Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Zaya went from #4171 to #869 and Astrid from #607 to #263.

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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 2 regions, from 2012 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #556 in Republic of Ireland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Zaya across 2 official records

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