About the name Zaya
Zaya belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Zaya first appears in Social Security records in 1994. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1165 in 2023, and in 2024 157 babies received the name — 2,359 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.