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
- Peak · girls
- 1897 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 448since 1897
Zenith over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #3,228 | 37 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #2,379 | 59 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #2,972 | 41 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | — | #8,130 | 9 | |
| 2013 | — | #12,136 | 5 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | — | #8,803 | 8 | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
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| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
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| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
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| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
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| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
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| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,203 | 14 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 | — | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | #2,972 | 9 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,690 | 11 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #2,762 | 12 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 | — | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | #3,264 | 5 |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
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| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 | — | |
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| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
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 2017
No state had 5 or more girls named Zenith in 2017, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zenith
- 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)
- Debuted 1897
- Peaked 1897 at #1,385 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1898, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 24.3% of all girls named Zenith (109) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #1,385 (1897) | #1,385 |
| 1900s | 19 | #1,607 (1909) | #1,740 |
| 1910s | 46 | #2,398 (1910) | #3,091 |
| 1920s | 89 | #2,762 (1921) | #3,452 |
| 1930s | 37 | #2,690 (1930) | #3,493 |
| 1940s | 44 | #2,203 (1940) | #3,497 |
| 1950s | 6 | #5,040 (1953) | #5,040 |
| 1960s | 8 | #5,008 (1964) | #5,008 |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,136 (1971) | #5,136 |
| 1980s | 5 | #11,325 (1987) | #11,325 |
| 1990s | 10 | #13,147 (1991) | #13,436 |
| 2000s | 9 | #11,599 (2008) | #11,599 |
| 2010s | 50 | #8,617 (2018) | #11,916 |
| 2020s | 109 | #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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 246,637 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 31.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,615Zuhur8
- #11,615Zyion8
- #11,615Zylia8
- #12,713Zenith7
- #12,713Aalaiyah7
- #12,713Aanshi7
- #12,713Aaradhana7
- #14,124Aabriella6
- #14,124Aaditri6
- #14,124Aafiya6
Tied with 1,410 names at #12,713; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 97,419 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 65.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,746Zaydrian20
- #4,746Zayon20
- #4,746Zebadiah20
- #4,935Zenith19
- #4,935Aarik19
- #4,935Aboubacar19
- #4,935Adama19
- #5,111Aadam18
- #5,111Abishai18
- #5,111Aceyn18
Tied with 175 names at #4,935; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.