Zowie
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 65 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 812since 1992
Zowie over time
Rank among girls' names. Zowie has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #3,816 | 40 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 |
| 2003 | #2,497 | 65 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Zowie! It came in at #11,738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2022–2024, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Zowie is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,443 · 1 in 25,991
- California#3,286 · 1 in 44,545
Best ever in a state: #1,568 in Georgia, 2008.
Show every state
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| Texas | #2,443 | 6 | 1 in 25,991 |
| California | #3,286 | 5 | 1 in 44,545 |
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See more about Zowie
- 2,085 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #13,208)
- 2,118 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #13,208)
- 7,555 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2003 at #2,497 (65 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,110 girls born in 2003 were named Zowie (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 54.6% of all girls named Zowie (443) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 114 | #4,201 (1999) | #7,632 |
| 2000s | 443 | #2,497 (2003) | #3,537 |
| 2010s | 224 | #3,816 (2010) | #6,237 |
| 2020s | 31 | #8,464 (2021) | #12,014 |
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.
Zowie in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 30,456 of them was named Zowie, which outranked 85.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,582Milana60
- #2,582Sahar60
- #2,582Sincere60
- #2,605Zowie59
- #2,605Afton59
- #2,605Amal59
- #2,605Amayah59
- #2,642Aine58
- #2,642Alyah58
- #2,642Andi58
Tied with 36 names at #2,605; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.