Zelena

#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births

Peak · girls
2018 · 39 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
403
since 1989

Zelena over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zelena has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #3,789, 2018girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025#6,11619
2024#4,03936
2023#4,87327
2022#5,63822
2021#5,09125
2020#3,91536
2019#4,34332
2018#3,78939
2017#4,14735
2016#5,44524
2015#6,45219
2014#8,48513
2013#11,0009
2012#14,9626
2011#10,37410
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First appearance
1989

The first year at least five girls were named Zelena! It came in at #10,847, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Zelena is popular in 2017

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #3,267 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 39,150 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Zelena, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. California#3,267 · 1 in 39,150

Best ever in a state: #2,545 in Texas, 2019.

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See more about Zelena
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 2,077 spots since 2024 (#4,039 → #6,116)
  • 2,201 spots since 2020 (#3,915 → #6,116)
  • 336 spots since 2015 (#6,452 → #6,116)
Rise & fade · girls
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1989
  • Peaked 2018 at #3,789 (39 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 43,617
  • Highest: 1 in 43,617 girls born in 2018 were named Zelena (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 46.4% of all girls named Zelena (187) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s6#10,847 (1989)#10,847
1990s27#9,586 (1994)#11,161
2000s18#9,975 (2009)#11,368
2010s187#3,789 (2018)#7,666
2020s165#3,915 (2020)#4,945

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zelena in 2017

girls
#4,147
35 births · 1 in 49,327 girls

Top girls' names in 2017

  1. #1Emma19,873
  2. #2Olivia18,778
  3. #3Ava16,017
  4. #4Isabella15,263
  5. #5Sophia14,947
  6. #6Mia13,521
  7. #7Charlotte12,969
  8. #8Amelia11,870
  9. #9Evelyn10,748
  10. #10Abigail10,645
  11. #4,147Zelena35
More about 2017

girls

1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 49,327 of them was named Zelena, which outranked 77.5% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zelena
  1. #4,066Xaria36
  2. #4,066Yashvi36
  3. #4,066Zaylynn36
  4. #4,147Zelena35
  5. #4,147Aairah35
  6. #4,147Aaminah35
  7. #4,147Aamira35
  8. #4,220Aela34
  9. #4,220Aeryn34
  10. #4,220Ailish34

Tied with 72 names at #4,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,443Ensley#2,412 → #969
  2. ↑ 1,020Oaklynn#1,908 → #888
  3. ↑ 842Dream#1,667 → #825
  4. ↑ 749Oaklyn#1,425 → #676
  5. ↑ 717Melania#1,649 → #932
Fallers
  1. ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
  2. ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
  3. ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
  4. ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
  5. ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2017 →