Ziggy

#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #1,486 for boys in 2025, 119 births
Given to boys 84.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
2022 · 168 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,501
since 1988

Ziggy over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,91720#1,486119
2024#4,56030#1,332144
2023#4,19134#1,397132
2022#3,59543#1,191168
2021#4,60729#1,325140
2020#4,35831#1,368129
2019#4,26033#1,548108
2018#6,52118#1,88679
2017#6,53118#2,29557
2016#7,60215#2,66146
2015#2,72244
2014#14,5586#2,70544
2013#3,18934
2012#3,80727
2011#2,95039
2010#3,45331
2009#2,99139
2008#4,04425
2007#4,49321
2006#4,52020
2005#10,1516
2004#8,9277
2003#5,27114
2002#10,6675
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First appearance
1988

The first year at least five boys were named Ziggy! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1988–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Ziggy
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 154 spots since 2024 (#1,332#1,486)
  • 118 spots since 2020 (#1,368#1,486)
  • 1,236 spots since 2015 (#2,722#1,486)
Rise & fade · boys
34 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1988
  • Peaked 2022 at #1,191 (168 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,393
  • Highest: 1 in 10,393 boys born in 2022 were named Ziggy (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 14,354 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 55.4% of all boys named Ziggy (832) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#7,270 (1988)#7,270
1990s5#8,868 (1995)#8,868
2000s150#2,991 (2009)#6,895
2010s509#1,548 (2019)#2,722
2020s832#1,191 (2022)#1,350

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.

Ziggy in 2021

girls
#4,607
29 births · 1 in 56,581 girls
boys
#1,325
140 births · 1 in 12,496 boys

Top girls' names in 2021

  1. #1Olivia17,847
  2. #2Emma15,549
  3. #3Charlotte13,368
  4. #4Amelia13,041
  5. #5Ava12,873
  6. #6Sophia12,585
  7. #7Isabella11,309
  8. #8Mia11,177
  9. #9Evelyn9,495
  10. #10Harper8,448
  11. #4,607Ziggy29

Top boys' names in 2021

  1. #1Liam20,424
  2. #2Noah18,919
  3. #3Oliver14,713
  4. #4Elijah12,845
  5. #5James12,474
  6. #6William12,170
  7. #7Benjamin11,895
  8. #8Lucas11,584
  9. #9Henry11,370
  10. #10Theodore9,600
  11. #1,325Ziggy140
More about 2021

girls

1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 56,581 of them was named Ziggy, which outranked 73.9% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ziggy
  1. #4,507Zenia30
  2. #4,507Zoella30
  3. #4,507Zyanya30
  4. #4,607Ziggy29
  5. #4,607Aalia29
  6. #4,607Adelynne29
  7. #4,607Adhya29
  8. #4,719Adalida28
  9. #4,719Addley28
  10. #4,719Aissatou28

Tied with 111 names at #4,607; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. 437Raya#932#495
  2. 396Wrenley#893#497
  3. 298Angelique#1,173#875
  4. 283Emberlynn#1,241#958
  5. 276Flora#924#648
Fallers
  1. 475Denisse#852#1,327
  2. 347Denise#876#1,223
  3. 267Karen#821#1,088
  4. 227Keily#854#1,081
  5. 227Nathalie#911#1,138

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

boys

1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 12,496 of them was named Ziggy, which outranked 90.6% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ziggy
  1. #1,320Kenai141
  2. #1,320Matheo141
  3. #1,320Rylen141
  4. #1,325Ziggy140
  5. #1,325Aleksander140
  6. #1,325Brexton140
  7. #1,325Jadon140
  8. #1,334Ean139
  9. #1,334Eason139
  10. #1,334Jasir139

Tied with 8 names at #1,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. 536Amiri#1,295#759
  2. 438Eliam#1,177#739
  3. 343Colter#972#629
  4. 333Ozzy#1,046#713
  5. 299Loyal#1,053#754
Fallers
  1. 352Jaxtyn#585#937
  2. 259Karsyn#698#957
  3. 231Xzavier#976#1,207
  4. 208Tristen#846#1,054
  5. 208Willie#992#1,200

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

See the top 100 for 2021