Zera
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · Last seen for boys in 1920 at #4,286
Given to girls 98.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1909 · 15 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 693since 1890
Zera over time
Rank among girls' names. Zera has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | — | |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | — | |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | — | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | — | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | — | |
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | — | |
| 2001 | — | — | ||
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | — | ||
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| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | — | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
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| 1964 | — | — | ||
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| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 | — | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 | — | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,617 | 13 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,973 | 11 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,264 | 16 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,821 | 23 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,674 | 12 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,204 | 15 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,028 | 16 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | #1,738 | 19 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,265 | 10 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,528 | 15 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,620 | 12 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,372 | 12 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,634 | 9 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,052 | 15 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,547 | 8 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,154 | 11 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,486 | 7 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | #1,594 | 6 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,136 | 9 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,431 | 8 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,502 | 6 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,385 | 6 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,416 | 6 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,353 | 6 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 | — | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 | — | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Zera! It came in at #1,338, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1890–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zera
- 1,310 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #7,133)
- 1,820 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #7,133)
- 4,702 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #7,133)
- Debuted 1890
- Peaked 1909 at #1,052 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1926, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,149 girls born in 1909 were named Zera (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 18.6% of all girls named Zera (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 46 | #1,338 (1890) | #1,406 |
| 1900s | 82 | #1,052 (1909) | #1,380 |
| 1910s | 129 | #1,372 (1911) | #2,028 |
| 1920s | 122 | #1,821 (1921) | #2,993 |
| 1930s | 33 | #3,226 (1931) | #3,635 |
| 1940s | 33 | #3,687 (1944) | #4,209 |
| 1950s | 18 | #4,833 (1951) | #5,063 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 19 | #6,258 (1974) | #7,291 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 11 | #11,409 (1990) | #12,567 |
| 2000s | 29 | #11,599 (2008) | #15,826 |
| 2010s | 95 | #7,342 (2019) | #11,493 |
| 2020s | 76 | #7,133 (2025) | #8,212 |
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.
Zera in 1912
Top girls' names in 1912
More about 1912
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558,119 girls got a published name in 1912; 1 in 46,510 of them was named Zera, which outranked 53.0% of the 3,445 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,540Virda13
- #1,540Wilhelmena13
- #1,540Zilpha13
- #1,620Zera12
- #1,620Alla12
- #1,620Allison12
- #1,620Alverna12
- #1,719Adda11
- #1,719Ailie11
- #1,719Alfrieda11
Tied with 98 names at #1,620; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.