Zulay
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1979 · 32 births
- Debut · girls
- 32 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 525since 1979
Zulay over time
Rank among girls' names. Zulay has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 |
| 2010 | #3,516 | 45 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
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| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
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| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
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| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zulay! It came in at #2,724, and was given to 32 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zulay is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,610 · 1 in 27,068
Best ever in a state: #543 in New Jersey, 1979.
Show every state
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| California | #2,610 | 7 | 1 in 27,068 |
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See more about Zulay
- 3,489 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #11,932)
- 6,618 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #11,932)
- 4,955 spots since 2015 (#6,977 → #11,932)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1979 at #2,724 (32 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,502 girls born in 2010 were named Zulay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,724 in 1979, was only 1 in 50,165 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.8% of all girls named Zulay (256) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 32 | #2,724 (1979) | #2,724 |
| 1980s | 74 | #4,860 (1985) | #7,500 |
| 1990s | 32 | #6,465 (1990) | #10,433 |
| 2000s | 41 | #5,891 (2009) | #12,250 |
| 2010s | 256 | #3,516 (2010) | #5,453 |
| 2020s | 90 | #5,314 (2020) | #7,821 |
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.
Zulay in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 73,960 of them was named Zulay, which outranked 70.0% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,315Zeniyah24
- #5,315Zunairah24
- #5,315Zuria24
- #5,454Zulay23
- #5,454Aairah23
- #5,454Abbigale23
- #5,454Adi23
- #5,619Aariya22
- #5,619Addaline22
- #5,619Adriella22
Tied with 164 names at #5,454; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.