Zelphia
Last seen for girls in 1970 at #4,761
- Peak · girls
- 1886 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 414since 1886
Zelphia over time
Rank among girls' names. Zelphia 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.
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| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 |
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| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
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| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 |
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| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
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| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | #2,922 | 9 |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,731 | 10 |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,568 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #2,339 | 15 |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 |
| 1925 | #2,778 | 12 |
| 1924 | #2,409 | 15 |
| 1923 | #2,465 | 14 |
| 1922 | #2,780 | 12 |
| 1921 | #2,048 | 19 |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 |
| 1919 | #3,005 | 10 |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 |
| 1917 | #1,923 | 18 |
| 1916 | #2,498 | 12 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1914 | #2,434 | 9 |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,634 | 9 |
| 1909 | #1,471 | 9 |
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,553 | 7 |
| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
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| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 |
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| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 |
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| 1886 | #1,108 | 5 |
| 1885 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Zelphia! It came in at #1,108, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1886–1895, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zelphia is popular in 1924
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#546 · 1 in 6,343
Best ever in a state: #546 in Kentucky, 1924.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #546 | 5 | 1 in 6,343 |
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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 Zelphia
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1970
- Debuted 1886
- Peaked 1886 at #1,108 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1887, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,907 girls born in 1886 were named Zelphia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 158,922 girls born in 1970 (0.00%)
- 30.4% of all girls named Zelphia (126) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,108 (1886) | #1,108 |
| 1890s | 6 | #1,416 (1896) | #1,416 |
| 1900s | 41 | #1,471 (1909) | #1,634 |
| 1910s | 81 | #1,634 (1910) | #2,592 |
| 1920s | 126 | #2,048 (1921) | #2,721 |
| 1930s | 65 | #2,731 (1935) | #3,470 |
| 1940s | 28 | #4,054 (1944) | #4,347 |
| 1950s | 33 | #3,284 (1951) | #4,269 |
| 1960s | 18 | #4,831 (1965) | #5,996 |
| 1970s | 11 | #4,761 (1970) | #4,761 |
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.
Zelphia in 1924
Top girls' names in 1924
More about 1924
girls
1,248,872 girls got a published name in 1924; 1 in 83,258 of them was named Zelphia, which outranked 59.2% of the 5,900 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,308Yukie16
- #2,308Zeta16
- #2,308Zilpha16
- #2,409Zelphia15
- #2,409Abby15
- #2,409Adel15
- #2,409Aldora15
- #2,514Adair14
- #2,514Aileene14
- #2,514Almer14
Tied with 104 names at #2,409; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.