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

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Peak · girls
2017 · 40 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
310
since 1957

Zo over time

girlsboys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202022peak #3,769, 2017girlsboysat peak
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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#13,2086#9,7147
2024#11,1228#12,3495
2023#6,92216#5,66616
2022#5,02826#5,63316
2021#5,09125#9,7147
2020#3,84137#7,50210
2019#4,16234#8,2159
2018#5,00726#10,7606
2017#3,76940#8,1409
2016#6,66318#10,7446
2015#8,00814
2014#9,51711#12,1085
2013#11,9698
2012#10,42910
2011#14,8246
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First appearance
1957

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
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
60 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 2017 at #3,769 (40 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 6 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 43,162
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 55.8% of all girls named Zo (173) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s6#5,377 (1957)#5,377
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s13#13,010 (2005)#13,595
2010s173#3,769 (2017)#8,931
2020s118#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 2022

girls
#5,028
26 births · 1 in 63,082 girls
boys
#5,633
16 births · 1 in 109,126 boys

Top girls' names in 2022

  1. #1Olivia16,670
  2. #2Emma14,512
  3. #3Charlotte12,952
  4. #4Amelia12,415
  5. #5Sophia12,382
  6. #6Isabella11,761
  7. #7Ava11,107
  8. #8Mia11,077
  9. #9Evelyn9,332
  10. #10Luna8,977
  11. #5,028Zo26

Top boys' names in 2022

  1. #1Liam20,579
  2. #2Noah18,758
  3. #3Oliver15,176
  4. #4James12,119
  5. #5Elijah12,094
  6. #6William11,356
  7. #7Henry11,272
  8. #8Lucas10,973
  9. #9Benjamin10,912
  10. #10Theodore10,824
  11. #5,633Zo16
More about 2022

girls

1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 63,082 of them was named Zo, which outranked 71.7% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zo
  1. #4,907Zlata27
  2. #4,907Zuleyka27
  3. #4,907Zuleyma27
  4. #5,028Zo26
  5. #5,028Aarushi26
  6. #5,028Adaiah26
  7. #5,028Adalet26
  8. #5,172Abeeha25
  9. #5,172Ace25
  10. #5,172Airi25

Tied with 143 names at #5,028; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2021
Risers
  1. 698Wrenlee#1,410#712
  2. 686Neriah#1,680#994
  3. 487Arlet#1,229#742
  4. 424Georgina#1,304#880
  5. 413Amiri#1,293#880
Fallers
  1. 282Tatiana#992#1,274
  2. 245Alaiya#721#966
  3. 239Aarna#967#1,206
  4. 231Jaylene#975#1,206
  5. 227Aviana#521#748

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

boys

1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 109,126 of them was named Zo, which outranked 60.7% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zo
  1. #5,445Zekai17
  2. #5,445Zepplin17
  3. #5,445Zyere17
  4. #5,633Zo16
  5. #5,633Aanav16
  6. #5,633Abenezer16
  7. #5,633Acesyn16
  8. #5,874Aadit15
  9. #5,874Abdur15
  10. #5,874Abhimanyu15

Tied with 240 names at #5,633; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2021
Risers
  1. 988Dutton#1,823#835
  2. 489Kayce#1,076#587
  3. 412Chosen#1,307#895
  4. 396Khaza#1,230#834
  5. 348Eithan#849#501
Fallers
  1. 324Jacoby#885#1,209
  2. 243Turner#937#1,180
  3. 233Aydin#897#1,130
  4. 218Juelz#991#1,209
  5. 216Jamal#868#1,084

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

See the top 100 for 2022