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 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 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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| 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 2020
No state had 5 or more girls named Zenith in 2020, 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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 124,350 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 54.5% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,559Ziyanna14
- #7,559Zuly14
- #7,559Zyriah14
- #7,969Zenith13
- #7,969Aaleah13
- #7,969Aanika13
- #7,969Abi13
- #8,406Aafiyah12
- #8,406Aaiza12
- #8,406Aalaya12
Tied with 436 names at #7,969; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 59,520 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 74.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,570Vian30
- #3,570Yadier30
- #3,570Yaziel30
- #3,653Zenith29
- #3,653Abrar29
- #3,653Akil29
- #3,653Alexandros29
- #3,734Abhay28
- #3,734Advith28
- #3,734Amor28
Tied with 80 names at #3,653; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.