Zenola

Last seen for girls in 1976 at #9,284

Peak · girls
1919 · 8 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
101
since 1915

Zenola over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zenola has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201922peak #3,452, 1919girls
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five girls were named Zenola! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1918, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zenola is popular in 1922

No state had 5 or more girls named Zenola in 1922, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zenola
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1976
Rise & fade · girls
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1919 at #3,452 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1923, 4 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 141,265
  • Highest: 1 in 141,265 girls born in 1919 were named Zenola (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 293,020 girls born in 1976 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 27.7% of all girls named Zenola (28) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s13#3,452 (1919)#3,863
1920s28#3,743 (1928)#4,566
1930s11#3,782 (1939)#4,097
1940s11#4,349 (1940)#4,511
1950s27#3,955 (1953)#4,869
1960s6#5,696 (1960)#5,696
1970s5#9,284 (1976)#9,284

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.

Zenola in 1922

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#4,445
6 births · 1 in 200,167 girls

Top girls' names in 1922

  1. #1Mary72,177
  2. #2Dorothy37,716
  3. #3Helen32,510
  4. #4Margaret26,862
  5. #5Ruth23,633
  6. #6Betty20,895
  7. #7Virginia19,144
  8. #8Mildred16,412
  9. #9Elizabeth15,244
  10. #10Frances15,054
  11. #4,445Zenola6
More about 1922

girls

1,201,003 girls got a published name in 1922; 1 in 200,167 of them was named Zenola, which outranked 23.2% of the 5,789 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zenola
  1. #4,011Zana7
  2. #4,011Zenaida7
  3. #4,011Zoie7
  4. #4,445Zenola6
  5. #4,445Aaron6
  6. #4,445Acie6
  7. #4,445Adalaide6
  8. #5,009Abelina5
  9. #5,009Adair5
  10. #5,009Adalia5

Tied with 563 names at #4,445; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1921
Risers
  1. ↑ 626Lilia#1,543 → #917
  2. ↑ 573Leatrice#1,258 → #685
  3. ↑ 412Phylis#1,409 → #997
  4. ↑ 352Darleen#1,258 → #906
  5. ↑ 295Madlyn#1,136 → #841
Fallers
  1. ↓ 518Erlene#946 → #1,464
  2. ↓ 390Exie#879 → #1,269
  3. ↓ 327Arlyne#905 → #1,232
  4. ↓ 288Toby#964 → #1,252
  5. ↓ 265Rochelle#987 → #1,252

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

See the top 100 for 1922 →