Zelia
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · girls
- 1887 · 11 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,177since 1883
Zelia over time
Rank among girls' names. Zelia has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,265 | 33 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | #3,047 | 9 |
| 1931 | #2,307 | 13 |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 |
| 1929 | #2,587 | 12 |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 |
| 1927 | #2,699 | 12 |
| 1926 | #2,165 | 17 |
| 1925 | #2,939 | 11 |
| 1924 | #2,062 | 19 |
| 1923 | #2,366 | 15 |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 |
| 1921 | #1,927 | 21 |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 |
| 1919 | #1,921 | 19 |
| 1918 | #1,690 | 23 |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 |
| 1916 | #2,133 | 15 |
| 1915 | #1,672 | 20 |
| 1914 | #2,125 | 11 |
| 1913 | #1,151 | 23 |
| 1912 | #1,297 | 17 |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
| 1910 | #1,207 | 14 |
| 1909 | #1,471 | 9 |
| 1908 | #1,357 | 10 |
| 1907 | #1,639 | 7 |
| 1906 | #1,727 | 6 |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 |
| 1904 | #1,364 | 8 |
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 |
| 1902 | #1,320 | 8 |
| 1901 | #961 | 12 |
| 1900 | #1,319 | 9 |
| 1899 | #756 | 18 |
| 1898 | #886 | 15 |
| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 |
| 1896 | #1,292 | 7 |
| 1895 | #1,053 | 10 |
| 1894 | #905 | 12 |
| 1893 | #955 | 10 |
| 1892 | #1,171 | 7 |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #825 | 11 |
| 1889 | #1,025 | 7 |
| 1888 | #837 | 10 |
| 1887 | #693 | 11 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #920 | 5 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Zelia! It came in at #920, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1886, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zelia is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,276 · 1 in 20,216
Best ever in a state: #481 in Ohio, 1919.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,276 | 8 | 1 in 20,216 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zelia
- 1,178 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #4,265)
- 1,818 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #4,265)
- 1,023 spots since 2015 (#5,288 → #4,265)
- Biggest jump: 499 spots in 1898 (#1,385 → #886)
- Biggest drop: 563 spots in 1900 (#756 → #1,319)
- Debuted 1883
- Peaked 1887 at #693 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 1887–1888
- Highest: 1 in 12,946 girls born in 1899 were named Zelia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #693 in 1887, was only 1 in 13,271 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 16.3% of all girls named Zelia (192) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 33 | #693 (1887) | #869 |
| 1890s | 96 | #756 (1899) | #1,025 |
| 1900s | 79 | #961 (1901) | #1,488 |
| 1910s | 158 | #1,151 (1913) | #1,827 |
| 1920s | 143 | #1,927 (1921) | #2,519 |
| 1930s | 63 | #2,307 (1931) | #3,646 |
| 1940s | 45 | #2,572 (1940) | #3,729 |
| 1950s | 38 | #4,376 (1955) | #4,952 |
| 1960s | 28 | #4,831 (1965) | #6,355 |
| 1970s | 18 | #7,292 (1972) | #7,670 |
| 1980s | 6 | #9,144 (1984) | #9,144 |
| 1990s | 19 | #9,581 (1996) | #11,998 |
| 2000s | 123 | #6,091 (2009) | #9,995 |
| 2010s | 192 | #5,288 (2015) | #6,545 |
| 2020s | 136 | #4,265 (2025) | #5,617 |
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.
Zelia in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
More about 2025
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1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 48,705 of them was named Zelia, which outranked 75.3% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #4,172Willamina34
- #4,172Xya34
- #4,172Zakiya34
- #4,265Zelia33
- #4,265Adeya33
- #4,265Aiya33
- #4,265Alta33
- #4,352Aaryn32
- #4,352Adalind32
- #4,352Addelynn32
Tied with 86 names at #4,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.