Zilla

Last seen for girls in 1951 at #4,385

Peak · girls
1882 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
288
since 1882

Zilla over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zilla has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #908, 1882girls
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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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1951#4,3857
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1935#2,57511
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1930#3,6587
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1928#3,4368
1927#4,2866
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1924#3,3939
1923#3,9717
1922#3,6558
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1918#2,37614
1917#4,5945
1916#3,2588
1915#2,9009
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1913#2,1649
1912#2,1448
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1903#1,4407
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1901#1,2278
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1899#1,5965
1898#1,2638
1897#1,3856
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1895#1,05310
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1888#1,0367
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1886#9936
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five girls were named Zilla! It came in at #908, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1882–1885, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zilla is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more girls named Zilla in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zilla
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1951
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1882 at #908 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1882–1886
Share of babies · girls
1 in 21,569
  • Highest: 1 in 21,569 girls born in 1882 were named Zilla (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 257,266 girls born in 1951 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 29.5% of all girls named Zilla (85) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s18#908 (1882)#979
1890s52#1,006 (1890)#1,235
1900s27#1,227 (1901)#1,567
1910s63#2,144 (1912)#2,814
1920s85#2,617 (1925)#3,548
1930s25#2,575 (1935)#3,227
1940s11#4,196 (1943)#4,376
1950s7#4,385 (1951)#4,385

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.

Zilla in 1918

girls
#2,376
14 births · 1 in 82,688 girls

Top girls' names in 1918

  1. #1Mary67,365
  2. #2Helen36,148
  3. #3Dorothy32,030
  4. #4Margaret27,139
  5. #5Ruth25,535
  6. #6Mildred17,258
  7. #7Virginia16,421
  8. #8Frances16,132
  9. #9Elizabeth15,853
  10. #10Anna15,666
  11. #2,376Zilla14
More about 1918

girls

1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 82,688 of them was named Zilla, which outranked 57.5% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zilla
  1. #2,289Willow15
  2. #2,289Wyoma15
  3. #2,289Zuma15
  4. #2,376Zilla14
  5. #2,376Adelaida14
  6. #2,376Aina14
  7. #2,376Aldena14
  8. #2,519Adabelle13
  9. #2,519Aleatha13
  10. #2,519Alleene13

Tied with 142 names at #2,376; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
  2. ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
  3. ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
  4. ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
  5. ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Valentine#964 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 428Ottie#952 → #1,380
  3. ↓ 354Delora#923 → #1,277
  4. ↓ 318Georgene#896 → #1,214
  5. ↓ 299Clifford#904 → #1,203

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

See the top 100 for 1918 →