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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 77,044 of them was named Zephyr, which outranked 70.2% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,445Zurisadai24
- #5,445Zyaire24
- #5,445Zyriah24
- #5,622Zephyr23
- #5,622Aalyiah23
- #5,622Aamani23
- #5,622Aaron23
- #5,796Abbygale22
- #5,796Adalay22
- #5,796Adeena22
Tied with 173 names at #5,622; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 15,182 of them was named Zephyr, which outranked 90.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,389Laith126
- #1,389Wiley126
- #1,389Zayvion126
- #1,399Zephyr125
- #1,399Avion125
- #1,399Azriel125
- #1,399Brighton125
- #1,413Advik124
- #1,413Brendon124
- #1,413Hollis124
Tied with 13 names at #1,399; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.