Zebbie

Last seen for girls in 1958 at #5,408 · Last seen for boys in 1959 at #3,988
Given to boys 94.3% of the time

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Peak · boys
1940 · 8 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
99
since 1916

Zebbie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955peak #2,671, 1940girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1959#3,9885
1958#5,4086
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1956#2,9698
1955#3,2017
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1952#3,7345
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1947#3,7335
1946#3,5255
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1942#3,2126
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1940#2,6718
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1936#3,1476
1935
1934#2,7428
1933#3,6425
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1928#4,1515
1927#3,7806
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1925#2,75510
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1919#4,1685
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1916#3,8975
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five boys were named Zebbie! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1916–1924, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zebbie
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1959
Rise & fade · boys
24 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1940 at #2,671 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1941, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 111,592
  • Highest: 1 in 111,592 boys born in 1925 were named Zebbie (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 426,904 boys born in 1959 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,671 in 1940, was only 1 in 144,897 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 25.3% of all boys named Zebbie (25) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1959
  • Mostly girls until 1958, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s10#3,897 (1916)#4,033
1920s21#2,755 (1925)#3,562
1930s19#2,742 (1934)#3,177
1940s24#2,671 (1940)#3,285
1950s25#2,969 (1956)#3,473

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zebbie in 1955

boys
#3,201
7 births · 1 in 294,270 boys

Top boys' names in 1955

  1. #1Michael88,355
  2. #2David86,306
  3. #3James84,186
  4. #4Robert83,758
  5. #5John80,128
  6. #6William59,990
  7. #7Richard53,566
  8. #8Thomas45,855
  9. #9Mark42,255
  10. #10Steven37,847
  11. #3,201Zebbie7
More about 1955

boys

2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 294,270 of them was named Zebbie, which outranked 27.3% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zebbie
  1. #2,964Yaakov8
  2. #2,964Yancy8
  3. #2,964Zeno8
  4. #3,201Zebbie7
  5. #3,201Abbie7
  6. #3,201Ahmad7
  7. #3,201Alcide7
  8. #3,505Abie6
  9. #3,505Able6
  10. #3,505Addis6

Tied with 303 names at #3,201; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. 808Davy#1,333#525
  2. 326Wyatt#985#659
  3. 323Moises#1,311#988
  4. 296Tad#1,068#772
  5. 286Rhett#1,122#836
Fallers
  1. 738Rahn#908#1,646
  2. 415Ricci#739#1,154
  3. 321Meredith#952#1,273
  4. 309Michial#985#1,294
  5. 282Arvin#973#1,255

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

See the top 100 for 1955