The name Zariyah is an American invention and has two possible origins: Some suggest, it is inspired by Zaria, an English form of the Arabic name Zahrah meaning ‘blooming flower’, others think of the Hebrew name Sariah meaning ‘Yahweh is ruler’.
Zariyah is a first name for girls.
The name Zariyah 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, Zariyah ranks 643. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Zariyah. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zariyah.
You may not know anyone named Zariyah, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to women and girls named Zariyah. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Zariyah living in one state or another. If your name is Zariyah and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Georgia, which has the most people named Zariyah relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,064 women and girls their names before you hear Zariyah as an answer just once.
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 seven letters, the name Zariyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Zariyah 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 Zariyah, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Zariyah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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H
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.
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H
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. Zariyah sounds like this:
