Zeppelin
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #1,499 for boys in 2025, 117 births
Given to boys 83.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 161 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,504since 1995
Zeppelin 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #1,499 | 117 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #1,371 | 137 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #1,369 | 136 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | #1,220 | 161 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #1,349 | 137 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #1,478 | 115 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #1,642 | 99 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | #1,465 | 118 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #1,695 | 93 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #2,012 | 71 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #2,036 | 70 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,668 | 44 |
| 2012 | — | #2,954 | 39 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,509 | 21 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,748 | 20 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zeppelin! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–2003, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zeppelin is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#679 · 1 in 3,868
- Tennessee#832 · 1 in 6,045
- Indiana#915 · 1 in 6,890
- Texas#1,275 · 1 in 13,551
- California#1,314 · 1 in 15,408
Best ever in a state: #372 in Kentucky, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #679 | 5 | 1 in 3,868 |
| Tennessee | #832 | 6 | 1 in 6,045 |
| Indiana | #915 | 5 | 1 in 6,890 |
| Texas | #1,275 | 13 | 1 in 13,551 |
| California | #1,314 | 14 | 1 in 15,408 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zeppelin
- 128 spots since 2024 (#1,371 → #1,499)
- 21 spots since 2020 (#1,478 → #1,499)
- 537 spots since 2015 (#2,036 → #1,499)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2022 at #1,220 (161 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,845 boys born in 2022 were named Zeppelin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,599 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 53.4% of all boys named Zeppelin (803) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #8,868 (1995) | #8,868 |
| 2000s | 71 | #4,748 (2009) | #8,135 |
| 2010s | 625 | #1,465 (2018) | #2,558 |
| 2020s | 803 | #1,220 (2022) | #1,381 |
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.
Zeppelin 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 132,805 of them was named Zeppelin, which outranked 55.0% 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).
- #7,840Zoraya14
- #7,840Zunairah14
- #7,840Zyelle14
- #8,299Zeppelin13
- #8,299Aala13
- #8,299Aamani13
- #8,299Aaryahi13
- #8,776Aaima12
- #8,776Aalani12
- #8,776Aaleah12
Tied with 476 names at #8,299; 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 19,903 of them was named Zeppelin, which outranked 88.1% 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).
- #1,681Ryden94
- #1,681Shamar94
- #1,681Valor94
- #1,695Zeppelin93
- #1,695Ayman93
- #1,695Britton93
- #1,695Cayde93
- #1,707Armaan92
- #1,707Arnav92
- #1,707Flint92
Tied with 11 names at #1,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.