Zeppelin
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #1,499 for boys in 2025, 117 births
Given to boys 83.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 161 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,504since 1995
Zeppelin 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 | #7,133 | 15 | #1,499 | 117 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | #1,371 | 137 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #1,369 | 136 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 | #1,220 | 161 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #1,349 | 137 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #1,478 | 115 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #1,642 | 99 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | #1,465 | 118 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #1,695 | 93 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #2,012 | 71 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #2,036 | 70 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,668 | 44 |
| 2012 | — | #2,954 | 39 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,509 | 21 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,748 | 20 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #10,894 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zeppelin! It came in at #8,868, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–2003, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zeppelin
- 128 spots since 2024 (#1,371 → #1,499)
- 21 spots since 2020 (#1,478 → #1,499)
- 537 spots since 2015 (#2,036 → #1,499)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2022 at #1,220 (161 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,845 boys born in 2022 were named Zeppelin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,599 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 53.4% of all boys named Zeppelin (803) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #8,868 (1995) | #8,868 |
| 2000s | 71 | #4,748 (2009) | #8,135 |
| 2010s | 625 | #1,465 (2018) | #2,558 |
| 2020s | 803 | #1,220 (2022) | #1,381 |
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.
Zeppelin in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 90,441 of them was named Zeppelin, which outranked 68.6% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,356Zair22
- #4,356Zaven22
- #4,356Zayaan22
- #4,509Zeppelin21
- #4,509Abigail21
- #4,509Acxel21
- #4,509Adi21
- #4,659Aaryn20
- #4,659Abdel20
- #4,659Aeron20
Tied with 149 names at #4,509; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.