Zo
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
Given to girls 75.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 40 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 310since 1957
Zo 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 | #13,208 | 6 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | — | |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | — | |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | — | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | — | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | — | |
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| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | — | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zo! It came in at #5,377, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–2003, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Zo
- 2,086 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #13,208)
- 9,367 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #13,208)
- 5,200 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2017 at #3,769 (40 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,162 girls born in 2017 were named Zo (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 55.8% of all girls named Zo (173) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,377 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 13 | #13,010 (2005) | #13,595 |
| 2010s | 173 | #3,769 (2017) | #8,931 |
| 2020s | 118 | #3,841 (2020) | #7,535 |
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.
Zo in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 98,446 of them was named Zo, which outranked 64.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,401Zivah19
- #6,401Zosia19
- #6,401Zunaira19
- #6,663Zo18
- #6,663Aarianna18
- #6,663Abigaile18
- #6,663Adilynne18
- #6,901Aaleah17
- #6,901Abigaelle17
- #6,901Adalae17
Tied with 237 names at #6,663; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 316,290 of them was named Zo, which outranked 24.4% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,664Zykeem7
- #9,664Zylar7
- #9,664Zylus7
- #10,744Zo6
- #10,744Aadhavan6
- #10,744Aaravreddy6
- #10,744Aavin6
- #12,185Aabid5
- #12,185Aabir5
- #12,185Aadhi5
Tied with 1,440 names at #10,744; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.