Zephyr

#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #1,196 for boys in 2025, 169 births
Given to boys 78.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
2021 · 192 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,528
since 1975

Zephyr over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201910peak #1,931, 1905girlsboysat 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#4,66129#1,196169
2024#4,38732#1,126189
2023#3,64042#1,118189
2022#3,96337#1,099195
2021#3,67841#1,092192
2020#3,54642#1,262145
2019#3,85138#1,218156
2018#4,56230#1,489116
2017#3,69741#1,378128
2016#5,62223#1,399125
2015#5,28825#1,359128
2014#5,79722#1,576100
2013#5,14326#1,65991
2012#6,34120#2,13263
2011#14,8246#1,75583
2010#6,90418#1,81680
2009#10,67910#1,83980
2008#13,8327#2,82842
2007#10,12911#2,97439
2006#15,1526#2,69843
2005#9,45211#2,90236
2004—#3,53426
2003#12,4087#3,73223
2002#11,1088#4,70316
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1999—#8,7046
1998#11,1387#6,8438
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1995—#7,7926
1994—#6,9687
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five boys were named Zephyr! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1976–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Zephyr is popular in 1910

No state had 5 or more boys named Zephyr in 1910, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zephyr
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 70 spots since 2024 (#1,126 → #1,196)
  • 66 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,196)
  • 163 spots since 2015 (#1,359 → #1,196)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 2021 at #1,092 (192 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,954
  • Highest: 1 in 8,954 boys born in 2022 were named Zephyr (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 10,107 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,092 in 2021, was only 1 in 9,112 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 42.7% of all boys named Zephyr (1,079) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1985
  • Mostly girls until 1984, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#4,797 (1975)#4,797
1980s10#6,523 (1985)#6,622
1990s46#6,670 (1992)#7,460
2000s317#1,839 (2009)#3,422
2010s1,070#1,218 (2019)#1,578
2020s1,079#1,092 (2021)#1,149

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zephyr in 1910

girls
#1,935
7 births · 1 in 56,643 girls

Top girls' names in 1910

  1. #1Mary22,848
  2. #2Helen10,479
  3. #3Margaret8,226
  4. #4Dorothy7,318
  5. #5Ruth7,212
  6. #6Anna6,436
  7. #7Elizabeth5,800
  8. #8Mildred5,692
  9. #9Marie4,790
  10. #10Alice4,671
  11. #1,935Zephyr7
More about 1910

girls

396,503 girls got a published name in 1910; 1 in 56,643 of them was named Zephyr, which outranked 30.6% of the 2,790 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zephyr
  1. #1,773Willetta8
  2. #1,773Zela8
  3. #1,773Zylpha8
  4. #1,935Zephyr7
  5. #1,935Adelene7
  6. #1,935Aldora7
  7. #1,935Aleta7
  8. #2,140Abby6
  9. #2,140Adriana6
  10. #2,140Albirta6

Tied with 204 names at #1,935; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1909
Risers
  1. ↑ 960Alys#1,957 → #997
  2. ↑ 849Lannie#1,763 → #914
  3. ↑ 766Luz#1,763 → #997
  4. ↑ 762Vivien#1,607 → #845
  5. ↑ 693Buna#1,607 → #914
Fallers
  1. ↓ 864Earl#909 → #1,773
  2. ↓ 864Fleta#909 → #1,773
  3. ↓ 783Elba#990 → #1,773
  4. ↓ 644Odile#990 → #1,634
  5. ↓ 576Claribel#845 → #1,421

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

See the top 100 for 1910 →