Zelphia

Last seen for girls in 1970 at #4,761

Peak · girls
1886 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
414
since 1886

Zelphia over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201944peak #1,108, 1886girls
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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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1970#4,76111
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1965#4,8318
1964#6,7675
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1960#6,3905
1959
1958#5,4086
1957
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1955#4,0699
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1951#3,28411
1950#4,3157
1949
1948#4,6516
1947
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1945#4,5565
1944#4,0546
1943
1942#4,1246
1941
1940#4,3495
1939#2,9229
1938#3,4507
1937
1936#3,7016
1935#2,73110
1934#3,4497
1933#4,2185
1932#3,5687
1931#3,8486
1930#3,3458
1929#3,6827
1928#2,76811
1927#2,33915
1926#3,04610
1925#2,77812
1924#2,40915
1923#2,46514
1922#2,78012
1921#2,04819
1920#2,89911
1919#3,00510
1918#3,5128
1917#1,92318
1916#2,49812
1915#2,9009
1914#2,4349
1913#2,8276
1912
1911
1910#1,6349
1909#1,4719
1908#1,8626
1907
1906#1,5537
1905#1,6966
1904#1,6596
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1900#1,5617
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1896#1,4166
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1886#1,1085
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First appearance
1886

The first year at least five girls were named Zelphia! It came in at #1,108, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1886–1895, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Zelphia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1970
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1886
  • Peaked 1886 at #1,108 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1887, 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 28,907
  • Highest: 1 in 28,907 girls born in 1886 were named Zelphia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 158,922 girls born in 1970 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 30.4% of all girls named Zelphia (126) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,108 (1886)#1,108
1890s6#1,416 (1896)#1,416
1900s41#1,471 (1909)#1,634
1910s81#1,634 (1910)#2,592
1920s126#2,048 (1921)#2,721
1930s65#2,731 (1935)#3,470
1940s28#4,054 (1944)#4,347
1950s33#3,284 (1951)#4,269
1960s18#4,831 (1965)#5,996
1970s11#4,761 (1970)#4,761

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.

Zelphia in 1944

girls
#4,054
6 births · 1 in 221,204 girls

Top girls' names in 1944

  1. #1Mary62,476
  2. #2Barbara39,196
  3. #3Linda38,415
  4. #4Patricia36,874
  5. #5Carol30,456
  6. #6Sandra26,024
  7. #7Nancy23,218
  8. #8Sharon22,433
  9. #9Judith22,431
  10. #10Betty19,761
  11. #4,054Zelphia6
More about 1944

girls

1,327,223 girls got a published name in 1944; 1 in 221,204 of them was named Zelphia, which outranked 22.7% of the 5,243 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zelphia
  1. #3,687Zelia7
  2. #3,687Zera7
  3. #3,687Zeta7
  4. #4,054Zelphia6
  5. #4,054Acquanetta6
  6. #4,054Adel6
  7. #4,054Adelene6
  8. #4,574Adelmira5
  9. #4,574Adonna5
  10. #4,574Adra5

Tied with 519 names at #4,054; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1943
Risers
  1. 1,229Dorinda#1,834#605
  2. 611Deirdre#1,556#945
  3. 504Alana#1,251#747
  4. 460Elyse#1,327#867
  5. 407Joella#1,395#988
Fallers
  1. 613Michal#996#1,609
  2. 493Aloma#762#1,255
  3. 448Louvenia#916#1,364
  4. 347Norine#889#1,236
  5. 341Lyla#864#1,205

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

See the top 100 for 1944