Zeffie

Last seen for girls in 1948 at #5,243

Peak · girls
1892 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
130
since 1892

Zeffie over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201906peak #1,278, 1892girls
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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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1929#3,3948
1928#4,7255
1927#2,69912
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1924#5,0615
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1921#4,0237
1920#3,9577
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1918#4,2916
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1916#3,5527
1915#3,4347
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1912#2,1448
1911#1,9567
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1909#1,6078
1908#1,8626
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1906#1,3219
1905#1,5387
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1903#1,7925
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1901#1,6795
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1892#1,2786
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First appearance
1892

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


Quietest stretch: 1893–1904, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zeffie is popular in 1906

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Zeffie
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1948
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 32,811
  • Highest: 1 in 32,811 girls born in 1906 were named Zeffie (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 339,582 girls born in 1948 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,278 in 1892, was only 1 in 35,390 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 33.8% of all girls named Zeffie (44) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s6#1,278 (1892)#1,278
1900s40#1,321 (1906)#1,633
1910s35#1,956 (1911)#3,075
1920s44#2,699 (1927)#3,977
1930s0
1940s5#5,243 (1948)#5,243

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.

Zeffie in 1906

girls
#1,321
9 births · 1 in 32,811 girls

Top girls' names in 1906

  1. #1Mary16,370
  2. #2Helen7,176
  3. #3Margaret6,096
  4. #4Anna5,502
  5. #5Ruth5,140
  6. #6Dorothy4,326
  7. #7Elizabeth4,320
  8. #8Alice4,192
  9. #9Mildred3,873
  10. #10Florence3,691
  11. #1,321Zeffie9
More about 1906

girls

295,297 girls got a published name in 1906; 1 in 32,811 of them was named Zeffie, which outranked 40.5% of the 2,220 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zeffie
  1. #1,229Vilma10
  2. #1,229Vivien10
  3. #1,229Zela10
  4. #1,321Zeffie9
  5. #1,321Agness9
  6. #1,321Albert9
  7. #1,321Aldea9
  8. #1,416Adelene8
  9. #1,416Afton8
  10. #1,416Alease8

Tied with 94 names at #1,321; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1905
Risers
  1. 1,036Lavera#1,931#895
  2. 1,014Luberta#1,931#917
  3. 1,014Williemae#1,931#917
  4. 851Evelyne#1,696#845
  5. 851Gregoria#1,696#845
Fallers
  1. 1,126Dulcie#825#1,951
  2. 1,051Zelpha#900#1,951
  3. 930Sydney#797#1,727
  4. 855Lester#872#1,727
  5. 801Alvira#926#1,727

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

See the top 100 for 1906