Zenith

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to girls 51.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
1897 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
448
since 1897

Zenith over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201931peak #1,385, 1897girlsboysat 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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,86011#3,03640
2024#5,44323#2,87344
2023#4,99926#3,22837
2022#5,46523#2,37959
2021#8,02413#2,97241
2020#7,96913#3,65329
2019#9,73610#3,14337
2018#8,61712#3,89127
2017#12,7137#4,93519
2016#16,2155#6,34913
2015#10,8669#7,49110
2014—#8,1309
2013—#12,1365
2012—#8,8648
2011#13,3477#8,7678
2010—#8,8038
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First appearance
1897

The first year at least five girls were named Zenith! It came in at #1,385, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1898–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zenith is popular in 1931

No state had 5 or more girls named Zenith in 1931, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zenith
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 3,417 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #8,860)
  • 891 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #8,860)
  • 2,006 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1897
  • Peaked 1897 at #1,385 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1898, 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 39,033
  • Highest: 1 in 39,033 girls born in 1897 were named Zenith (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 24.3% of all girls named Zenith (109) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
  • Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#1,385 (1897)#1,385
1900s19#1,607 (1909)#1,740
1910s46#2,398 (1910)#3,091
1920s89#2,762 (1921)#3,452
1930s37#2,690 (1930)#3,493
1940s44#2,203 (1940)#3,497
1950s6#5,040 (1953)#5,040
1960s8#5,008 (1964)#5,008
1970s10#5,136 (1971)#5,136
1980s5#11,325 (1987)#11,325
1990s10#13,147 (1991)#13,436
2000s9#11,599 (2008)#11,599
2010s50#8,617 (2018)#11,916
2020s109#4,999 (2023)#6,793

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.

Zenith in 1931

girls
#2,972
9 births · 1 in 118,303 girls

Top girls' names in 1931

  1. #1Mary60,299
  2. #2Betty36,105
  3. #3Dorothy26,524
  4. #4Barbara21,804
  5. #5Joan19,119
  6. #6Helen17,664
  7. #7Margaret17,332
  8. #8Patricia16,469
  9. #9Shirley14,405
  10. #10Doris13,629
  11. #2,972Zenith9
More about 1931

girls

1,064,728 girls got a published name in 1931; 1 in 118,303 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 40.3% of the 4,979 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zenith
  1. #2,750Yoko10
  2. #2,750Yukiko10
  3. #2,750Zenaida10
  4. #2,972Zenith9
  5. #2,972Aaron9
  6. #2,972Adlene9
  7. #2,972Adrianna9
  8. #3,226Adelyn8
  9. #3,226Adena8
  10. #3,226Agapita8

Tied with 253 names at #2,972; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1930
Risers
  1. ↑ 857Joretta#1,320 → #463
  2. ↑ 519Joetta#1,460 → #941
  3. ↑ 483Sondra#1,031 → #548
  4. ↑ 465Celine#1,460 → #995
  5. ↑ 343Lynne#1,274 → #931
Fallers
  1. ↓ 377Margo#937 → #1,314
  2. ↓ 349Rachael#894 → #1,243
  3. ↓ 317Evelyne#926 → #1,243
  4. ↓ 287Vivien#971 → #1,258
  5. ↓ 283Ardeth#629 → #912

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

See the top 100 for 1931 →