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“Light” — Arabic via Turkish origin
Girl's name · #1941 in the US (2025) · 2020s
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. 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.
Around the world: about 1 in 8,600 girls in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 13,000 girls in England & Wales (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 11 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 118 notable people named Ziya:
Similar names: Zya · Elif · Zylah · Haya · Halima · Leya
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