Zera

#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · Last seen for boys in 1920 at #4,286
Given to girls 98.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
1909 · 15 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
693
since 1890

Zera over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zera has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201920peak #1,052, 1909girls
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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#7,13315—
2024#8,44312—
2023#8,48612—
2022#7,28115—
2021#8,97811—
2020#8,95311—
2019#7,34215—
2018#7,40915—
2017#8,29913—
2016#9,41111—
2015#11,8358—
2014#14,5586—
2013#11,9698—
2012#14,9626—
2011#12,1538—
2010#16,9925—
2009#17,2945—
2008#11,5999—
2007#17,6365—
2006#17,1685—
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2002#15,4325—
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1997#13,7245—
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1951#4,8336—
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1948#4,6516—
1947#4,0078—
1946#4,9605—
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1944#3,6877—
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1942#3,7387—
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1926#4,3066—
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1924#2,97311—
1923#2,26416—
1922#2,18617—
1921#1,82123—
1920#2,46314#4,2865
1919#3,2199—
1918#2,67412—
1917#2,20415—
1916#2,02816#3,8975
1915#1,73819—
1914#2,26510—
1913#1,52815—
1912#1,62012—
1911#1,37212—
1910#1,6349—
1909#1,05215—
1908#1,5478—
1907#1,09213—
1906#1,15411—
1905#1,9315—
1904#1,4867—
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1899#1,3946—
1898#1,5026—
1897#1,3856—
1896#1,4166—
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five girls were named Zera! It came in at #1,338, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zera is popular in 1920

No state had 5 or more girls named Zera in 1920, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zera
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 1,310 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #7,133)
  • 1,820 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #7,133)
  • 4,702 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #7,133)
Rise & fade · girls
19 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1909 at #1,052 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1926, 17 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 23,149
  • Highest: 1 in 23,149 girls born in 1909 were named Zera (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 18.6% of all girls named Zera (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s46#1,338 (1890)#1,406
1900s82#1,052 (1909)#1,380
1910s129#1,372 (1911)#2,028
1920s122#1,821 (1921)#2,993
1930s33#3,226 (1931)#3,635
1940s33#3,687 (1944)#4,209
1950s18#4,833 (1951)#5,063
1960s0——
1970s19#6,258 (1974)#7,291
1980s0——
1990s11#11,409 (1990)#12,567
2000s29#11,599 (2008)#15,826
2010s95#7,342 (2019)#11,493
2020s76#7,133 (2025)#8,212

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.

Zera in 1920

girls
#2,463
14 births · 1 in 85,592 girls
boys
#4,286
5 births · 1 in 212,871 boys

Top girls' names in 1920

  1. #1Mary70,983
  2. #2Dorothy36,643
  3. #3Helen35,097
  4. #4Margaret27,994
  5. #5Ruth26,102
  6. #6Mildred18,060
  7. #7Virginia17,314
  8. #8Elizabeth15,908
  9. #9Frances15,883
  10. #10Anna14,581
  11. #2,463Zera14

Top boys' names in 1920

  1. #1John56,913
  2. #2William50,146
  3. #3Robert48,679
  4. #4James47,908
  5. #5Charles28,309
  6. #6George26,891
  7. #7Joseph25,587
  8. #8Edward20,097
  9. #9Frank16,430
  10. #10Richard15,010
  11. #4,286Zera5
More about 1920

girls

1,198,289 girls got a published name in 1920; 1 in 85,592 of them was named Zera, which outranked 57.3% of the 5,767 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zera
  1. #2,357Willma15
  2. #2,357Wylene15
  3. #2,357Zelpha15
  4. #2,463Zera14
  5. #2,463Adelyn14
  6. #2,463Aldora14
  7. #2,463Alejandra14
  8. #2,590Adriana13
  9. #2,590Akiko13
  10. #2,590Allena13

Tied with 126 names at #2,463; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. ↑ 550Denise#1,481 → #931
  2. ↑ 321Blossom#1,242 → #921
  3. ↑ 311Lilia#1,242 → #931
  4. ↑ 302Ena#1,270 → #968
  5. ↑ 277Lorayne#1,216 → #939
Fallers
  1. ↓ 594Haruko#917 → #1,511
  2. ↓ 511Roselle#1,000 → #1,511
  3. ↓ 345Toshiko#967 → #1,312
  4. ↓ 304Carroll#902 → #1,206
  5. ↓ 297Santina#835 → #1,132

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

boys

1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 212,871 of them was named Zera, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zera
  1. #3,815Zed6
  2. #3,815Zeddie6
  3. #3,815Zenas6
  4. #4,286Zera5
  5. #4,286Aarne5
  6. #4,286Abb5
  7. #4,286Abran5

Tied with 703 names at #4,286; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. ↑ 960Harding#1,351 → #391
  2. ↑ 607Cameron#1,351 → #744
  3. ↑ 566Hardin#1,531 → #965
  4. ↑ 392Laurel#1,321 → #929
  5. ↑ 368Terrence#1,297 → #929
Fallers
  1. ↓ 789Pershing#593 → #1,382
  2. ↓ 580Woodroe#877 → #1,457
  3. ↓ 385Quinten#867 → #1,252
  4. ↓ 383Orvel#890 → #1,273
  5. ↓ 373Rexford#927 → #1,300

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

See the top 100 for 1920 →