Zellie

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · Last seen for boys in 1918 at #4,179
Given to girls 98.2% of the time

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Peak · girls
1906 · 7 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
266
since 1897

Zellie over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201906peak #1,553, 1906girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079
2024#10,2719
2023#9,61610
2022#9,68010
2021#8,46412
2020#8,40612
2019#9,11211
2018#9,80610
2017#12,7137
2016#9,41111
2015#8,93112
2014#10,12910
2013#13,1507
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2007#17,6365
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1943#4,6915
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1932#3,5687
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1928#4,1956
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1925#4,9735
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1923#4,9675
1922#2,78012
1921#3,6668
1920#4,3986
1919#4,2516
1918#2,67412#4,1795
1917
1916#3,9196
1915#3,7956
1914#3,6185
1913#2,1649
1912#2,9795
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1906#1,5537
1905
1904#1,6596
1903#1,7925
1902#1,7935
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1897#1,5555
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First appearance
1897

The first year at least five girls were named Zellie! It came in at #1,555, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1897–1903, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Zellie
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 164 spots since 2024 (#10,271#10,107)
  • 1,701 spots since 2020 (#8,406#10,107)
  • 1,176 spots since 2015 (#8,931#10,107)
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1897
  • Peaked 1906 at #1,553 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1907, 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 42,185
  • Highest: 1 in 42,185 girls born in 1906 were named Zellie (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 25.6% of all girls named Zellie (68) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s5#1,555 (1897)#1,555
1900s23#1,553 (1906)#1,699
1910s49#2,164 (1913)#3,343
1920s42#2,780 (1922)#4,163
1930s7#3,568 (1932)#3,568
1940s5#4,691 (1943)#4,691
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s5#17,636 (2007)#17,636
2010s68#8,931 (2015)#10,465
2020s62#8,406 (2020)#9,424

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.

Zellie in 1906

girls
#1,553
7 births · 1 in 42,185 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. #1,553Zellie7
More about 1906

girls

295,297 girls got a published name in 1906; 1 in 42,185 of them was named Zellie, which outranked 30.0% 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 Zellie
  1. #1,416Vinita8
  2. #1,416Virtie8
  3. #1,416Willow8
  4. #1,553Zellie7
  5. #1,553Adda7
  6. #1,553Adelaida7
  7. #1,553Aggie7
  8. #1,727Abby6
  9. #1,727Agapita6
  10. #1,727Albena6

Tied with 173 names at #1,553; 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