Ziggy
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #1,486 for boys in 2025, 119 births
Given to boys 84.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 168 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,501since 1988
Ziggy 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 | #5,917 | 20 | #1,486 | 119 |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 | #1,332 | 144 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | #1,397 | 132 |
| 2022 | #3,595 | 43 | #1,191 | 168 |
| 2021 | #4,607 | 29 | #1,325 | 140 |
| 2020 | #4,358 | 31 | #1,368 | 129 |
| 2019 | #4,260 | 33 | #1,548 | 108 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 2015 | — | #2,722 | 44 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,807 | 27 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,950 | 39 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,453 | 31 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,991 | 39 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,044 | 25 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,493 | 21 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,520 | 20 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ziggy! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ziggy is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#146 · 1 in 409
- Arkansas#484 · 1 in 2,088
- Colorado#745 · 1 in 4,354
- New Jersey#888 · 1 in 6,655
- Michigan#961 · 1 in 6,663
Best ever in a state: #146 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #146 | 7 | 1 in 409 |
| Arkansas | #484 | 6 | 1 in 2,088 |
| Colorado | #745 | 6 | 1 in 4,354 |
| New Jersey | #888 | 6 | 1 in 6,655 |
| Michigan | #961 | 6 | 1 in 6,663 |
| Washington | #994 | 5 | 1 in 6,503 |
| California | #1,098 | 18 | 1 in 10,015 |
| New York | #1,162 | 10 | 1 in 8,648 |
| Florida | #1,475 | 7 | 1 in 13,662 |
| Texas | #1,961 | 8 | 1 in 22,349 |
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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 Ziggy
- 154 spots since 2024 (#1,332 → #1,486)
- 118 spots since 2020 (#1,368 → #1,486)
- 1,236 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #1,486)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2022 at #1,191 (168 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,393 boys born in 2022 were named Ziggy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,354 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 55.4% of all boys named Ziggy (832) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,868 (1995) | #8,868 |
| 2000s | 150 | #2,991 (2009) | #6,895 |
| 2010s | 509 | #1,548 (2019) | #2,722 |
| 2020s | 832 | #1,191 (2022) | #1,350 |
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.
Ziggy in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 54,006 of them was named Ziggy, which outranked 74.3% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,473Zosia31
- #4,473Zuriyah31
- #4,473Zyaire31
- #4,560Ziggy30
- #4,560Addy30
- #4,560Afia30
- #4,560Ailynn30
- #4,669Aalani29
- #4,669Adia29
- #4,669Alahna29
Tied with 108 names at #4,560; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 11,965 of them was named Ziggy, which outranked 90.7% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,324Lazarus145
- #1,324Rylo145
- #1,324West145
- #1,332Ziggy144
- #1,332Freddy144
- #1,332Haiden144
- #1,332Malikai144
- #1,341Bernardo143
- #1,341Clifford143
- #1,341Eyden143
Tied with 8 names at #1,332; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.