Zelie
#1,692 for girls in 2025, 121 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 142 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,264since 2002
Zelie over time
Rank among girls' names. Zelie has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,692 | 121 |
| 2024 | #1,810 | 111 |
| 2023 | #1,762 | 116 |
| 2022 | #1,898 | 106 |
| 2021 | #1,491 | 142 |
| 2020 | #1,908 | 100 |
| 2019 | #1,833 | 111 |
| 2018 | #2,302 | 79 |
| 2017 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2016 | #2,206 | 87 |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
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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 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kansas#499 · 1 in 1,976
- Washington#835 · 1 in 4,254
- Indiana#903 · 1 in 4,804
- Virginia#940 · 1 in 5,041
- Michigan#1,076 · 1 in 6,647
Best ever in a state: #208 in North Dakota, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | #499 | 6 | 1 in 1,976 |
| Washington | #835 | 7 | 1 in 4,254 |
| Indiana | #903 | 6 | 1 in 4,804 |
| Virginia | #940 | 7 | 1 in 5,041 |
| Michigan | #1,076 | 6 | 1 in 6,647 |
| Illinois | #1,335 | 6 | 1 in 8,597 |
| Ohio | #1,446 | 5 | 1 in 10,113 |
| California | #2,221 | 9 | 1 in 20,507 |
| Texas | #2,309 | 8 | 1 in 19,819 |
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See more about Zelie
- 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)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2021 at #1,491 (142 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 55.1% of all girls named Zelie (696) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 57 | #8,888 (2009) | #13,805 |
| 2010s | 511 | #1,833 (2019) | #4,389 |
| 2020s | 696 | #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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 15,120 of them was named Zelie, which outranked 89.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,816Venus112
- #1,816Xochitl112
- #1,816Zadie112
- #1,833Zelie111
- #1,833Calla111
- #1,833Charlene111
- #1,833Kaidence111
- #1,844Dalila110
- #1,844Kynzlee110
- #1,844Lilyann110
Tied with 10 names at #1,833; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.