Zendaya

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Zendaya: Recorded every year since 2012, it reached #354 in 2022, and it stood at #1,166 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
15times a registrar ranked it
14years from first to last
#354highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2012–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#4838
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2015	#3252
2016	#2120
2017	#2201
2018	#1649
2019	#1497
2020	#1313
2021	#901
2022	#718
2023	#754
2024	#980
2025	#1166

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 2025.

In 2022: #354 among girls in Northern Ireland, #718 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 #4838 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
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #1166 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Zendaya 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: #354 in Northern Ireland in 2022.

Zendaya'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#1166	28	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#980	36	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#754	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#718	51	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#901	39	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1313	24	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

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 #354, first reached in 2022.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, and 10 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.

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Zenayah · #1603, 10y
Zenia · #2286, 22y
Zeniyah · #1939, 10y

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.

Daniels · #354, 19y
Erin-Rose · #355, 14y
Chizaram · #351, 19y
Reanne · #351, 18y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

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

Amelia-Lily · #353, 15y
Khaleesi · #355, 15y
Harper-Rose · #351, 14y
Zara-Rose · #358, 12y

Zendaya was ranked #354 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2022. 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.

Adeline#354
Aila#354
Alba#354
Alivia#354
Adelaide#418
Aisling#418
Aiveen#418
Alaia#418

Zendaya 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Zendaya without appearing here.

Zendaya moved ahead of

Belinda
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2120 and #5785.
Geraldine
In 2015 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2120 and #5785.
Kari
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2120 and #5785.
Kristine
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2120 and #5785.

Moved the opposite way to Zendaya

Abigail
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 while Abigail went from #44 to #171.
Aimee
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 while Aimee went from #153 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 while Aisling went from #1150 to #1892.
Alex
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 while Alex went from #916 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Zendaya

Ada
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 and Ada from #384 to #40.
Alma
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 and Alma from #749 to #211.
Arabella
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 and Arabella from #177 to #22.
Aria
Between 2012 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Zendaya went from #4838 to #1166 and Aria from #294 to #34.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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: #354 in Northern Ireland in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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