The origin of the name Zaria is not clear. It is possibly a derivation of the Arabic name Zahrah meaning ‘blooming flower’.
Zaria is a female first name.
The name Zaria isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Zaria ranks 743. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Zaria. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zaria.
The origin of the name Zaria is not clear. It is possibly a derivation of the Arabic name Zahrah meaning ‘blooming flower’.
Zaria is especially... popular in the southern East of the US.
Zaria is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Zaria cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #454 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2000. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Zaria, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Zaria seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zaria was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
372 babies were named Zaria in 2022 - that's 1 in 398,473 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Zaria ranked 706 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Zaria is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.
If your name is Zaria and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zaria, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zaria
Zaria
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
R
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
A
R
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zaria sounds like this:
