Zephyr
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #1,196 for boys in 2025, 169 births
Given to boys 78.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 192 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,528since 1975
Zephyr 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 | #4,661 | 29 | #1,196 | 169 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #1,126 | 189 |
| 2023 | #3,640 | 42 | #1,118 | 189 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 | #1,099 | 195 |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 | #1,092 | 192 |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | #1,262 | 145 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 | #1,218 | 156 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #1,489 | 116 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | #1,378 | 128 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #1,399 | 125 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #1,359 | 128 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #1,576 | 100 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | #1,659 | 91 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #2,132 | 63 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #1,816 | 80 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #1,839 | 80 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,698 | 43 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | — | — | ||
| 2000 | — | #5,588 | 12 | |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #6,843 | 8 |
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| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
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| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
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| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 | — | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 | — | |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | — | |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | — | |
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| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,658 | 11 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,331 | 8 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,144 | 8 | — | |
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| 1910 | #1,935 | 7 | — | |
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| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 | — | |
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| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zephyr! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zephyr
- 70 spots since 2024 (#1,126 → #1,196)
- 66 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,196)
- 163 spots since 2015 (#1,359 → #1,196)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2021 at #1,092 (192 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,954 boys born in 2022 were named Zephyr (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,107 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,092 in 2021, was only 1 in 9,112 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.7% of all boys named Zephyr (1,079) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1984, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #4,797 (1975) | #4,797 |
| 1980s | 10 | #6,523 (1985) | #6,622 |
| 1990s | 46 | #6,670 (1992) | #7,460 |
| 2000s | 317 | #1,839 (2009) | #3,422 |
| 2010s | 1,070 | #1,218 (2019) | #1,578 |
| 2020s | 1,079 | #1,092 (2021) | #1,149 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zephyr in 1923
Top girls' names in 1923
More about 1923
girls
1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 120,637 of them was named Zephyr, which outranked 45.5% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,917Wonda11
- #2,917Zeda11
- #2,917Zilpha11
- #3,125Zephyr10
- #3,125Adabelle10
- #3,125Adair10
- #3,125Adelfa10
- #3,350Adalia9
- #3,350Adena9
- #3,350Adra9
Tied with 224 names at #3,125; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.