Zo
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 75.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 40 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 310since 1957
Zo 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | — | |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | — | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | — | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | — | |
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| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zo! It came in at #5,377, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–2003, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zo is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arizona#292 · 1 in 1,203
Best ever in a state: #292 in Arizona, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #292 | 23 | 1 in 1,203 |
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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 Zo
- 2,086 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #13,208)
- 9,367 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #13,208)
- 5,200 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2017 at #3,769 (40 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,162 girls born in 2017 were named Zo (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 55.8% of all girls named Zo (173) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 6 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,377 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 13 | #13,010 (2005) | #13,595 |
| 2010s | 173 | #3,769 (2017) | #8,931 |
| 2020s | 118 | #3,841 (2020) | #7,535 |
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.
Zo in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 43,691 of them was named Zo, which outranked 78.1% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,778Wilma38
- #3,778Zaila38
- #3,778Zanyla38
- #3,841Zo37
- #3,841Ailynn37
- #3,841Alycia37
- #3,841Anny37
- #3,915Aayra36
- #3,915Adia36
- #3,915Aina36
Tied with 73 names at #3,841; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 172,608 of them was named Zo, which outranked 46.6% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,034Zylon11
- #7,034Zymier11
- #7,034Zyron11
- #7,502Zo10
- #7,502Aadhyan10
- #7,502Aalijah10
- #7,502Aamari10
- #8,067Aadarsh9
- #8,067Aadhi9
- #8,067Aadish9
Tied with 564 names at #7,502; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.