Zeta
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1897 · 12 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,354since 1888
Zeta over time
Rank among girls' names. Zeta has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 |
| 2005 | #4,195 | 33 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 |
| 2001 | #4,209 | 29 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
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| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
| 1964 | #4,355 | 10 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
| 1940 | #2,572 | 11 |
| 1939 | #1,731 | 20 |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 |
| 1935 | #2,006 | 16 |
| 1934 | #2,289 | 13 |
| 1933 | #1,658 | 21 |
| 1932 | #2,644 | 11 |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 |
| 1930 | #1,934 | 18 |
| 1929 | #2,011 | 17 |
| 1928 | #2,497 | 13 |
| 1927 | #2,339 | 15 |
| 1926 | #2,076 | 18 |
| 1925 | #1,795 | 23 |
| 1924 | #2,308 | 16 |
| 1923 | #1,944 | 20 |
| 1922 | #1,785 | 23 |
| 1921 | #2,048 | 19 |
| 1920 | #1,666 | 25 |
| 1919 | #2,063 | 17 |
| 1918 | #1,805 | 21 |
| 1917 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1916 | #1,867 | 18 |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1914 | #1,603 | 17 |
| 1913 | #1,883 | 11 |
| 1912 | #1,719 | 11 |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
| 1910 | #1,421 | 11 |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 |
| 1908 | #1,676 | 7 |
| 1907 | #1,289 | 10 |
| 1906 | #1,002 | 14 |
| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 |
| 1904 | #1,364 | 8 |
| 1903 | #1,318 | 8 |
| 1902 | #1,438 | 7 |
| 1901 | #1,227 | 8 |
| 1900 | #1,171 | 11 |
| 1899 | #1,181 | 8 |
| 1898 | #1,171 | 9 |
| 1897 | #931 | 12 |
| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 |
| 1895 | #1,123 | 9 |
| 1894 | #1,237 | 7 |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Zeta! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zeta is popular in 1925
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#955 · 1 in 12,343
Best ever in a state: #955 in Texas, 1925.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #955 | 5 | 1 in 12,343 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Zeta
- 2,108 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #6,838)
- 209 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #6,838)
- 4,028 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #6,838)
- Biggest jump: 485 spots in 1897 (#1,416 → #931)
- Biggest drop: 240 spots in 1898 (#931 → #1,171)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1897 at #931 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1905, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1897
- Highest: 1 in 19,517 girls born in 1897 were named Zeta (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.3% of all girls named Zeta (234) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,276 (1888) | #1,276 |
| 1890s | 56 | #931 (1897) | #1,214 |
| 1900s | 87 | #1,002 (1906) | #1,379 |
| 1910s | 141 | #1,421 (1910) | #1,964 |
| 1920s | 189 | #1,666 (1920) | #2,047 |
| 1930s | 138 | #1,658 (1933) | #2,384 |
| 1940s | 77 | #2,572 (1940) | #3,217 |
| 1950s | 69 | #3,714 (1951) | #4,606 |
| 1960s | 74 | #3,920 (1960) | #5,505 |
| 1970s | 14 | #6,258 (1974) | #6,775 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 12 | #7,716 (1999) | #7,716 |
| 2000s | 234 | #4,195 (2005) | #5,663 |
| 2010s | 171 | #5,543 (2011) | #7,321 |
| 2020s | 87 | #5,955 (2021) | #7,803 |
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.
Zeta in 1925
Top girls' names in 1925
More about 1925
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1,217,384 girls got a published name in 1925; 1 in 52,930 of them was named Zeta, which outranked 68.9% of the 5,771 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,748Wilmer24
- #1,748Yoshie24
- #1,748Yuriko24
- #1,795Zeta23
- #1,795Anner23
- #1,795Anona23
- #1,795Apolonia23
- #1,847Adel22
- #1,847Alvie22
- #1,847Annelle22
Tied with 51 names at #1,795; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.