Zelie

#1,692 for girls in 2025, 121 births

Peak · girls
2021 · 142 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,264
since 2002

Zelie over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zelie has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202010girlsat peak
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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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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,692121
2024#1,810111
2023#1,762116
2022#1,898106
2021#1,491142
2020#1,908100
2019#1,833111
2018#2,30279
2017#2,23684
2016#2,20687
2015#3,25450
2014#5,31025
2013#6,46219
2012#7,45616
2011#6,85518
2010#5,97722
2009#8,88813
2008#10,80710
2007#17,6365
2006#15,1526
2005#14,5026
2004#14,1796
2003#13,8446
2002#15,4325
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First appearance
2002

The first year at least five girls were named Zelie! It came in at #15,432, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2002–2007, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

Where Zelie is popular in 2010

No state had 5 or more girls named Zelie in 2010, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zelie
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 118 spots since 2024 (#1,810 → #1,692)
  • 216 spots since 2020 (#1,908 → #1,692)
  • 1,562 spots since 2015 (#3,254 → #1,692)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 2002
  • Peaked 2021 at #1,491 (142 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 11,555
  • Highest: 1 in 11,555 girls born in 2021 were named Zelie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,283 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 55.1% of all girls named Zelie (696) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
2000s57#8,888 (2009)#13,805
2010s511#1,833 (2019)#4,389
2020s696#1,491 (2021)#1,760

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.

Zelie in 2010

girls
#5,977
22 births · 1 in 80,800 girls

Top girls' names in 2010

  1. #1Isabella22,936
  2. #2Sophia20,656
  3. #3Emma17,366
  4. #4Olivia17,040
  5. #5Ava15,444
  6. #6Emily14,281
  7. #7Abigail14,257
  8. #8Madison13,196
  9. #9Chloe11,765
  10. #10Mia10,650
  11. #5,977Zelie22
More about 2010

girls

1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 80,800 of them was named Zelie, which outranked 69.9% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zelie
  1. #5,771Yulia23
  2. #5,771Zahava23
  3. #5,771Zyah23
  4. #5,977Zelie22
  5. #5,977Adair22
  6. #5,977Addi22
  7. #5,977Adeena22
  8. #6,182Aariyah21
  9. #6,182Adelaine21
  10. #6,182Adira21

Tied with 204 names at #5,977; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2009
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,433Tenley#2,892 → #459
  2. ↑ 2,126Elin#2,852 → #726
  3. ↑ 664Jordynn#1,353 → #689
  4. ↑ 623Kynlee#1,509 → #886
  5. ↑ 513Farrah#1,063 → #550
Fallers
  1. ↓ 502Calleigh#834 → #1,336
  2. ↓ 491Marely#851 → #1,342
  3. ↓ 477Analia#331 → #808
  4. ↓ 417Destiney#900 → #1,317
  5. ↓ 326Dayanara#810 → #1,136

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

See the top 100 for 2010 →