Zula
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1881 · 27 births
- Debut · girls
- 27 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,450since 1880
Zula over time
Rank among girls' names. Zula has never cracked the top 300 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 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | — | |
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| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #2,502 | 18 |
| 1951 | #3,106 | 12 |
| 1950 | #2,436 | 17 |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 |
| 1948 | #1,901 | 25 |
| 1947 | #2,146 | 21 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #1,402 | 33 |
| 1944 | #1,545 | 28 |
| 1943 | #1,703 | 25 |
| 1942 | #1,533 | 29 |
| 1941 | #1,310 | 34 |
| 1940 | #1,374 | 30 |
| 1939 | #1,079 | 44 |
| 1938 | #1,288 | 32 |
| 1937 | #1,063 | 45 |
| 1936 | #1,230 | 34 |
| 1935 | #965 | 51 |
| 1934 | #1,062 | 43 |
| 1933 | #887 | 58 |
| 1932 | #998 | 50 |
| 1931 | #899 | 59 |
| 1930 | #847 | 71 |
| 1929 | #1,137 | 42 |
| 1928 | #924 | 64 |
| 1927 | #917 | 66 |
| 1926 | #790 | 84 |
| 1925 | #753 | 96 |
| 1924 | #765 | 95 |
| 1923 | #721 | 102 |
| 1922 | #651 | 127 |
| 1921 | #766 | 91 |
| 1920 | #706 | 105 |
| 1919 | #645 | 116 |
| 1918 | #731 | 96 |
| 1917 | #657 | 107 |
| 1916 | #665 | 105 |
| 1915 | #655 | 102 |
| 1914 | #608 | 88 |
| 1913 | #571 | 80 |
| 1912 | #582 | 69 |
| 1911 | #548 | 59 |
| 1910 | #487 | 70 |
| 1909 | #421 | 76 |
| 1908 | #500 | 53 |
| 1907 | #418 | 72 |
| 1906 | #447 | 58 |
| 1905 | #430 | 61 |
| 1904 | #382 | 74 |
| 1903 | #371 | 74 |
| 1902 | #385 | 66 |
| 1901 | #389 | 57 |
| 1900 | #392 | 71 |
| 1899 | #374 | 60 |
| 1898 | #342 | 83 |
| 1897 | #330 | 79 |
| 1896 | #360 | 65 |
| 1895 | #376 | 55 |
| 1894 | #345 | 64 |
| 1893 | #322 | 70 |
| 1892 | #365 | 53 |
| 1891 | #372 | 45 |
| 1890 | #312 | 65 |
| 1889 | #334 | 55 |
| 1888 | #356 | 45 |
| 1887 | #372 | 33 |
| 1886 | #318 | 43 |
| 1885 | #329 | 38 |
| 1884 | #385 | 27 |
| 1883 | #366 | 25 |
| 1882 | #389 | 21 |
| 1881 | #301 | 27 |
| 1880 | #305 | 27 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Zula was already there! It came in at #305, and was given to 27 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1963, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zula is popular in 1940
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#881 · 1 in 12,020
Best ever in a state: #211 in Mississippi, 1910.
Show every state
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| Texas | #881 | 5 | 1 in 12,020 |
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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 Zula
- 7,691 spots since 2024 (#7,251 → #14,942)
- 6,973 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 290 spots in 1930 (#1,137 → #847)
- Biggest drop: 265 spots in 1936 (#965 → #1,230)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1881 at #301 (27 births)
- Births halved by 1951, 70 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1880–1928
- Highest: 1 in 2,929 girls born in 1890 were named Zula (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #301 in 1881, was only 1 in 3,406 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.0% of all girls named Zula (892) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 341 | #301 (1881) | #346 |
| 1890s | 639 | #312 (1890) | #350 |
| 1900s | 662 | #371 (1903) | #414 |
| 1910s | 892 | #487 (1910) | #615 |
| 1920s | 872 | #651 (1922) | #813 |
| 1930s | 487 | #847 (1930) | #1,032 |
| 1940s | 258 | #1,310 (1941) | #1,774 |
| 1950s | 113 | #2,436 (1950) | #3,716 |
| 1960s | 30 | #5,168 (1960) | #5,966 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 10 | #15,432 (2002) | #16,363 |
| 2010s | 73 | #6,698 (2019) | #10,712 |
| 2020s | 73 | #7,247 (2023) | #9,042 |
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.
Zula in 1940
Top girls' names in 1940
More about 1940
girls
1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 38,118 of them was named Zula, which outranked 72.7% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,347Tommy31
- #1,347Tracy31
- #1,347Verdie31
- #1,374Zula30
- #1,374Blanca30
- #1,374Caron30
- #1,374Christy30
- #1,404Adrian29
- #1,404Albina29
- #1,404Ardelle29
Tied with 29 names at #1,374; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.