Zaya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 202 babies a year in the US.
Zaya by the numbers
In 2025, 30 babies in England and Wales were named Zaya. In the US, 202 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Zaya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Zaya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Zarablooming flower or princess625 in England and Wales (2025)
- Zoyalife; from zoe meaning life208 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ziyalight, splendor; variant of Zia128 in the US (2017)
- Zaydagrowth; abundance; a form of Zaida104 in the US (2017)
- Zaynabeauty or grace; a form of Zaynab73 in England and Wales (2025)
- Zayahgrace and beauty; a feminine form of Zayn or variant of Zaynah14 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Zaya
Names that are said the same way as Zaya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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