Zenita

Last seen for girls in 1989 at #12,362

Peak · girls
1928 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
56
since 1928

Zenita over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zenita has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201928peak #4,725, 1928girls
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First appearance
1928

The first year at least five girls were named Zenita! It came in at #4,725, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1928–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zenita is popular in 1928

No state had 5 or more girls named Zenita in 1928, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zenita
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1989
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1928
  • Peaked 1928 at #4,725 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1929, 1 yr 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 208,266
  • Highest: 1 in 208,266 girls born in 1975 were named Zenita (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 368,710 girls born in 1989 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,725 in 1928, was only 1 in 230,664 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 41.1% of all girls named Zenita (23) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s5#4,725 (1928)#4,725
1930s0——
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1960s6#5,851 (1961)#5,851
1970s23#7,173 (1975)#7,892
1980s22#8,523 (1986)#10,800

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.

Zenita in 1928

girls
#4,725
5 births · 1 in 230,664 girls

Top girls' names in 1928

  1. #1Mary66,871
  2. #2Betty36,083
  3. #3Dorothy33,733
  4. #4Helen22,937
  5. #5Margaret20,295
  6. #6Ruth17,859
  7. #7Doris16,575
  8. #8Barbara14,872
  9. #9Virginia14,500
  10. #10Shirley14,215
  11. #4,725Zenita5
More about 1928

girls

1,153,318 girls got a published name in 1928; 1 in 230,664 of them was named Zenita, which outranked 13.1% of the 5,440 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zenita
  1. #4,195Zell6
  2. #4,195Zellie6
  3. #4,195Zelta6
  4. #4,725Zenita5
  5. #4,725Adamae5
  6. #4,725Adelma5
  7. #4,725Adlena5

Tied with 715 names at #4,725; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1927
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,165Jeanine#3,053 → #888
  2. ↑ 1,368Joline#2,256 → #888
  3. ↑ 1,101Lorelei#2,095 → #994
  4. ↑ 1,063Jeannine#1,384 → #321
  5. ↑ 859Romona#1,456 → #597
Fallers
  1. ↓ 860Valencia#924 → #1,784
  2. ↓ 547Kazuko#955 → #1,502
  3. ↓ 386Matilde#924 → #1,310
  4. ↓ 368Glendora#747 → #1,115
  5. ↓ 366Hilma#924 → #1,290

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

See the top 100 for 1928 →