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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201923peak #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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1974#6,2588—
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1972#7,2926—
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1955#5,2086—
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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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1938#4,3425—
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1929#4,5705—
1928#3,1649—
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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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1898#1,5026—
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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 1923

No state had 5 or more girls named Zera in 1923, 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 1923

girls
#2,264
16 births · 1 in 75,398 girls

Top girls' names in 1923

  1. #1Mary71,634
  2. #2Dorothy39,043
  3. #3Helen31,486
  4. #4Margaret26,134
  5. #5Betty25,989
  6. #6Ruth23,637
  7. #7Virginia18,325
  8. #8Mildred15,989
  9. #9Elizabeth15,459
  10. #10Frances14,881
  11. #2,264Zera16
More about 1923

girls

1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 75,398 of them was named Zera, which outranked 60.6% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zera
  1. #2,169Will17
  2. #2,169Yukiko17
  3. #2,169Zana17
  4. #2,264Zera16
  5. #2,264Aldean16
  6. #2,264Almarie16
  7. #2,264Alphia16
  8. #2,366Abby15
  9. #2,366Adelaida15
  10. #2,366Aldora15

Tied with 101 names at #2,264; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1922
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,834Eris#2,291 → #457
  2. ↑ 619Penny#1,508 → #889
  3. ↑ 317Laurene#1,309 → #992
  4. ↑ 310Cruz#1,103 → #793
  5. ↑ 306Dorene#1,207 → #901
Fallers
  1. ↓ 321Veva#962 → #1,283
  2. ↓ 318Arlie#949 → #1,267
  3. ↓ 305Gaynell#978 → #1,283
  4. ↓ 303Trinidad#449 → #752
  5. ↓ 300Laurine#897 → #1,197

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

See the top 100 for 1923 →