Zuma

Last seen for girls in 1938 at #4,342 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 89.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
1895 · 10 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
140
since 1889

Zuma over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201910peak #1,053, 1895girlsboysat 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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2025
2024#10,9386
2023#12,2395
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2020#12,0225
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1938#4,3425
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1926#2,87211
1925#4,0287
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1922#5,0095
1921#4,0237
1920#4,3986
1919#3,8177
1918#2,28915
1917#3,0929
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1915#3,4347
1914#2,12511
1913#2,8276
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1910#1,6349
1909#2,2085
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1907#2,0615
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1901#1,6795
1900#1,9325
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1895#1,05310
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1889#1,2795
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five girls were named Zuma! It came in at #1,279, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1889–1894, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Zuma
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1938
Rise & fade · girls
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1895 at #1,053 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1896, 1 yr 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 23,363
  • Highest: 1 in 23,363 girls born in 1895 were named Zuma (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 220,691 girls born in 1938 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 45.7% of all girls named Zuma (64) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2020
  • Mostly girls until 2019, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,279 (1889)#1,279
1890s10#1,053 (1895)#1,053
1900s20#1,679 (1901)#1,970
1910s64#1,634 (1910)#2,745
1920s36#2,872 (1926)#4,066
1930s5#4,342 (1938)#4,342

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.

Zuma in 1910

girls
#1,634
9 births · 1 in 44,056 girls

Top girls' names in 1910

  1. #1Mary22,848
  2. #2Helen10,479
  3. #3Margaret8,226
  4. #4Dorothy7,318
  5. #5Ruth7,212
  6. #6Anna6,436
  7. #7Elizabeth5,800
  8. #8Mildred5,692
  9. #9Marie4,790
  10. #10Alice4,671
  11. #1,634Zuma9
More about 1910

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396,503 girls got a published name in 1910; 1 in 44,056 of them was named Zuma, which outranked 41.4% of the 2,790 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zuma
  1. #1,521Willard10
  2. #1,521Yoshiko10
  3. #1,521Ysabel10
  4. #1,634Zuma9
  5. #1,634Adda9
  6. #1,634Ader9
  7. #1,634Aldine9
  8. #1,773Aileene8
  9. #1,773Ala8
  10. #1,773Aleda8

Tied with 138 names at #1,634; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1909
Risers
  1. 960Alys#1,957#997
  2. 849Lannie#1,763#914
  3. 766Luz#1,763#997
  4. 762Vivien#1,607#845
  5. 693Buna#1,607#914
Fallers
  1. 864Earl#909#1,773
  2. 864Fleta#909#1,773
  3. 783Elba#990#1,773
  4. 644Odile#990#1,634
  5. 576Claribel#845#1,421

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

See the top 100 for 1910