Zela
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1897 · 12 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 609since 1889
Zela over time
Rank among girls' names. Zela has never cracked the top 900 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 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
| 2011 | — | |
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| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 |
| 1928 | #2,284 | 15 |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 |
| 1926 | #2,872 | 11 |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 |
| 1924 | #1,992 | 20 |
| 1923 | #2,264 | 16 |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 |
| 1921 | #2,282 | 16 |
| 1920 | #2,590 | 13 |
| 1919 | #2,515 | 13 |
| 1918 | #2,102 | 17 |
| 1917 | #2,316 | 14 |
| 1916 | #1,689 | 21 |
| 1915 | #1,800 | 18 |
| 1914 | #1,541 | 18 |
| 1913 | #1,670 | 13 |
| 1912 | #2,144 | 8 |
| 1911 | #1,372 | 12 |
| 1910 | #1,773 | 8 |
| 1909 | #1,369 | 10 |
| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 |
| 1907 | #1,289 | 10 |
| 1906 | #1,229 | 10 |
| 1905 | — | |
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| 1903 | #1,592 | 6 |
| 1902 | #1,320 | 8 |
| 1901 | #1,466 | 6 |
| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,700 | 5 |
| 1897 | #931 | 12 |
| 1896 | #1,292 | 7 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,136 | 8 |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | #1,171 | 7 |
| 1891 | — | |
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| 1889 | #950 | 8 |
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| 1883 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zela! It came in at #950, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1890–1891, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zela
- 5,115 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #8,362)
- 2,728 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #8,362)
- 8,057 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 361 spots in 1897 (#1,292 → #931)
- Biggest drop: 769 spots in 1898 (#931 → #1,700)
- Debuted 1889
- Peaked 1897 at #931 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1898, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1889–1897
- Highest: 1 in 19,517 girls born in 1897 were named Zela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.3% of all girls named Zela (142) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 8 | #950 (1889) | #950 |
| 1890s | 44 | #931 (1897) | #1,278 |
| 1900s | 60 | #1,229 (1906) | #1,537 |
| 1910s | 142 | #1,372 (1911) | #1,892 |
| 1920s | 135 | #1,992 (1924) | #2,626 |
| 1930s | 57 | #2,424 (1934) | #3,556 |
| 1940s | 37 | #3,194 (1942) | #3,770 |
| 1950s | 5 | #6,086 (1957) | #6,086 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 7 | #13,832 (2008) | #13,832 |
| 2010s | 57 | #9,112 (2019) | #12,398 |
| 2020s | 57 | #7,630 (2021) | #10,513 |
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.
Zela in 1928
Top girls' names in 1928
More about 1928
girls
1,153,318 girls got a published name in 1928; 1 in 76,888 of them was named Zela, which outranked 58.0% of the 5,440 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,194Willo16
- #2,194Wylene16
- #2,194Zana16
- #2,284Zela15
- #2,284Akiko15
- #2,284Allegra15
- #2,284Andree15
- #2,381Aileene14
- #2,381Aldora14
- #2,381Aleda14
Tied with 96 names at #2,284; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.