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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 162,282 of them was named Zeppelin, which outranked 50.4% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,931Zoelynn12
- #8,931Zorah12
- #8,931Zylie12
- #9,481Zeppelin11
- #9,481Aaisha11
- #9,481Aalaiyah11
- #9,481Aaleah11
- #10,148Aarianna10
- #10,148Aaryah10
- #10,148Aaylah10
Tied with 666 names at #9,481; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 27,382 of them was named Zeppelin, which outranked 85.5% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,019Roscoe71
- #2,019Tye71
- #2,019Tylen71
- #2,036Zeppelin70
- #2,036Blair70
- #2,036Crue70
- #2,036Darin70
- #2,055Ahmari69
- #2,055Breckin69
- #2,055Camari69
Tied with 18 names at #2,036; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.