Zenith
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to girls 51.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1897 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 448since 1897
Zenith over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #3,228 | 37 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #2,379 | 59 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #2,972 | 41 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #3,891 | 27 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | — | #8,130 | 9 | |
| 2013 | — | #12,136 | 5 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | — | #8,803 | 8 | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
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| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
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| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
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| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
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| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
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| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
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| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
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| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,203 | 14 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 | — | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | #2,972 | 9 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,690 | 11 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,144 | 10 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #2,762 | 12 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 | — | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | #3,264 | 5 |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 | — | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
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| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 | — | |
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| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Zenith! It came in at #1,385, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1898–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zenith
- 3,417 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #8,860)
- 891 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #8,860)
- 2,006 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #8,860)
- Debuted 1897
- Peaked 1897 at #1,385 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1898, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,033 girls born in 1897 were named Zenith (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.3% of all girls named Zenith (109) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #1,385 (1897) | #1,385 |
| 1900s | 19 | #1,607 (1909) | #1,740 |
| 1910s | 46 | #2,398 (1910) | #3,091 |
| 1920s | 89 | #2,762 (1921) | #3,452 |
| 1930s | 37 | #2,690 (1930) | #3,493 |
| 1940s | 44 | #2,203 (1940) | #3,497 |
| 1950s | 6 | #5,040 (1953) | #5,040 |
| 1960s | 8 | #5,008 (1964) | #5,008 |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,136 (1971) | #5,136 |
| 1980s | 5 | #11,325 (1987) | #11,325 |
| 1990s | 10 | #13,147 (1991) | #13,436 |
| 2000s | 9 | #11,599 (2008) | #11,599 |
| 2010s | 50 | #8,617 (2018) | #11,916 |
| 2020s | 109 | #4,999 (2023) | #6,793 |
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.
Zenith in 1920
Top girls' names in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
girls
1,198,289 girls got a published name in 1920; 1 in 108,935 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 49.7% of the 5,767 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,731Willye12
- #2,731Wilmoth12
- #2,731Zell12
- #2,899Zenith11
- #2,899Ailie11
- #2,899Alee11
- #2,899Aletta11
- #3,097Adina10
- #3,097Agusta10
- #3,097Alison10
Tied with 197 names at #2,899; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 152,051 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 30.1% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,208Willey8
- #3,208Willim8
- #3,208Wyndham8
- #3,489Zenith7
- #3,489Abelino7
- #3,489Acey7
- #3,489Acil7
- #3,815Abron6
- #3,815Ada6
- #3,815Adel6
Tied with 325 names at #3,489; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.