Zia is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
Zia is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,393 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,392 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zia.
In fact, the name Zia did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Zia seemed to be more popular than ever in 2019. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,061, 208 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Zia, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Zia a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,081 - with a total of 201 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
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 only three letters, the name Zia is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Zia 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 Zia, you can simply say:
Zebra
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zia
Zia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
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
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. Zia sounds like this:
