Zenja

Last seen for girls in 1971 at #4,123

Peak · girls
1970 · 26 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
47
since 1968

Zenja over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zenja has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Zenja! It came in at #5,642, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Zenja is popular in 1968

No state had 5 or more girls named Zenja in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zenja
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1971
Rise & fade · girls
2 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 1970 at #2,705 (26 births)
  • Births halved by 1972, 2 yrs 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 67,236
  • Highest: 1 in 67,236 girls born in 1970 were named Zenja (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 118,845 girls born in 1971 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 85.1% of all girls named Zenja (40) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s7#5,642 (1968)#5,642
1970s40#2,705 (1970)#3,414

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.

Zenja in 1968

girls
#5,642
7 births · 1 in 234,341 girls

Top girls' names in 1968

  1. #1Lisa49,534
  2. #2Michelle33,223
  3. #3Kimberly31,906
  4. #4Jennifer26,853
  5. #5Melissa21,733
  6. #6Mary21,727
  7. #7Angela20,670
  8. #8Tammy20,058
  9. #9Karen19,560
  10. #10Susan19,503
  11. #5,642Zenja7
More about 1968

girls

1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 234,341 of them was named Zenja, which outranked 31.2% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zenja
  1. #5,147Yuki8
  2. #5,147Yuri8
  3. #5,147Yvonda8
  4. #5,642Zenja7
  5. #5,642Adair7
  6. #5,642Adine7
  7. #5,642Agripina7
  8. #6,246Abigayle6
  9. #6,246Acquanetta6
  10. #6,246Adana6

Tied with 603 names at #5,642; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1967
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,132Coretta#3,656 → #524
  2. ↑ 1,257Tamika#1,980 → #723
  3. ↑ 1,150Tamiko#1,702 → #552
  4. ↑ 607Chantel#1,348 → #741
  5. ↑ 490Chantal#1,441 → #951
Fallers
  1. ↓ 602Wende#857 → #1,459
  2. ↓ 545Zina#959 → #1,504
  3. ↓ 341Evonne#970 → #1,311
  4. ↓ 294Portia#902 → #1,196
  5. ↓ 285Mariann#973 → #1,258

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

See the top 100 for 1968 →