Zinnia

Where Zinnia comes from

The dictionaries list Zinnia as a given name — a female given name from English from the flower — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #1,285
    174 babies named Zinnia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English from the flower
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Zinnia hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.