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 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
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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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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
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| 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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| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 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 1940
Top girls' names in 1940
More about 1940
girls
1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 81,681 of them was named Zenith, which outranked 56.2% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,109Violetta15
- #2,109Virgia15
- #2,109Vona15
- #2,203Zenith14
- #2,203Alayne14
- #2,203Alethia14
- #2,203Alfred14
- #2,297Adaline13
- #2,297Afton13
- #2,297Alethea13
Tied with 93 names at #2,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.