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Ziya

Meaning
Light
Origin
From Arabic via Turkish

Girl's name · #1941 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

Popularity over time

Ziya is near its high-water mark: it reached #1489 in 2022 and still ranked #1941 in 2025. About 1,800 girls have carried it since 1999.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 11 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#1,582 in England & Wales (2025) · #3,362 in France (2025) · #1,468 in Canada (2024).

Famous Ziyas

What Ziyas become

Among 118 notable people named Ziya:

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Zia (#1477) and Ziyah (#2777), Ziya would rank around #872 with about 310 births last year — the newborns split about 48/32/20 across Zia, Ziya, and Ziyah.

Similar names: Zya · Elif · Zylah · Haya · Ayda · Leya

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