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Zaya Zaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Destiny / good fortune"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Mongolian)

A name that means "destiny / good fortune".

Zaya is from the Mongolian Заяа (Zayaa — destiny, fate, good fortune). Zaya is one of the Mongolian feminine names — central to traditional Mongolian Buddhist + Tengrist heritage.

Destiny / good fortune (Mongolian).

The name in its native script.

Заяа
Transliteration
Zayaa
Pronunciation
/ ˈzɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zaya stands.

Zaya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Zayas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Zaya Pandita
Oirat-Mongol Buddhist scholar + Clear Script 1648.

Names connected to Zaya.

The number behind Zaya.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zaya reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.