Zylpha

Last seen for girls in 1924 at #5,061

Peak · girls
1892 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
84
since 1892

Zylpha over time

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Rank among girls' names. Zylpha has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201900peak #1,278, 1892girls
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First appearance
1892

The first year at least five girls were named Zylpha! It came in at #1,278, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1893–1895, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zylpha is popular in 1900

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Zylpha
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1924
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1892
  • Peaked 1892 at #1,278 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1893, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 35,390
  • Highest: 1 in 35,390 girls born in 1892 were named Zylpha (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 249,774 girls born in 1924 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 39.3% of all girls named Zylpha (33) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s22#1,278 (1892)#1,460
1900s11#1,723 (1900)#1,912
1910s33#1,773 (1910)#3,324
1920s18#3,666 (1921)#4,579

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.

Zylpha in 1900

girls
#1,723
6 births · 1 in 49,964 girls

Top girls' names in 1900

  1. #1Mary16,705
  2. #2Helen6,342
  3. #3Anna6,114
  4. #4Margaret5,304
  5. #5Ruth4,765
  6. #6Elizabeth4,096
  7. #7Florence3,920
  8. #8Ethel3,896
  9. #9Marie3,856
  10. #10Lillian3,414
  11. #1,723Zylpha6
More about 1900

girls

299,784 girls got a published name in 1900; 1 in 49,964 of them was named Zylpha, which outranked 22.5% of the 2,223 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zylpha
  1. #1,561Zelphia7
  2. #1,561Zenia7
  3. #1,561Zillie7
  4. #1,723Zylpha6
  5. #1,723Alcie6
  6. #1,723Alejandra6
  7. #1,723Alfrieda6
  8. #1,932Adabelle5
  9. #1,932Afton5
  10. #1,932Ailene5

Tied with 208 names at #1,723; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1899
Risers
  1. ↑ 940Rosia#1,596 → #656
  2. ↑ 763Josiephine#1,596 → #833
  3. ↑ 763Lelar#1,596 → #833
  4. ↑ 736Carmel#1,596 → #860
  5. ↑ 722Gloria#1,278 → #556
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,204Irva#728 → #1,932
  2. ↓ 1,026Dellie#906 → #1,932
  3. ↓ 1,026Marybelle#906 → #1,932
  4. ↓ 949Sada#983 → #1,932
  5. ↓ 949Sidonia#983 → #1,932

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

See the top 100 for 1900 →