Zerita

Last seen for girls in 1962 at #5,860

Peak · girls
1950 · 7 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
51
since 1922

Zerita over time

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Rank among girls' names. Zerita has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201922peak #4,315, 1950girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1962#5,8606
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First appearance
1922

The first year at least five girls were named Zerita! It came in at #5,009, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1922–1923, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Zerita
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1962
Rise & fade · girls
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1922
  • Peaked 1950 at #4,315 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1952, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 208,145
  • Highest: 1 in 208,145 girls born in 1924 were named Zerita (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 327,767 girls born in 1962 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,315 in 1950, was only 1 in 244,722 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 37.3% of all girls named Zerita (19) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s11#4,434 (1924)#4,722
1930s0
1940s10#4,622 (1942)#4,933
1950s19#4,315 (1950)#4,824
1960s11#5,860 (1962)#6,125

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.

Zerita in 1922

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#5,009
5 births · 1 in 240,201 girls

Top girls' names in 1922

  1. #1Mary72,177
  2. #2Dorothy37,716
  3. #3Helen32,510
  4. #4Margaret26,862
  5. #5Ruth23,633
  6. #6Betty20,895
  7. #7Virginia19,144
  8. #8Mildred16,412
  9. #9Elizabeth15,244
  10. #10Frances15,054
  11. #5,009Zerita5
More about 1922

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1,201,003 girls got a published name in 1922; 1 in 240,201 of them was named Zerita, which outranked 13.5% of the 5,789 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zerita
  1. #4,445Zenola6
  2. #4,445Zonnie6
  3. #4,445Zuella6
  4. #5,009Zerita5
  5. #5,009Abelina5
  6. #5,009Adair5
  7. #5,009Adalia5

Tied with 780 names at #5,009; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1921
Risers
  1. 626Lilia#1,543#917
  2. 573Leatrice#1,258#685
  3. 412Phylis#1,409#997
  4. 352Darleen#1,258#906
  5. 295Madlyn#1,136#841
Fallers
  1. 518Erlene#946#1,464
  2. 390Exie#879#1,269
  3. 327Arlyne#905#1,232
  4. 288Toby#964#1,252
  5. 265Rochelle#987#1,252

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1922