Girl Names That Start With Z
Girls' names beginning with Z, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 1.7%
- vs 0.57% in 2000
- Names in use
- 540
- 1,403 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2023
- at 1.8% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #18
- by 2025 share
How Z has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with Z, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,646#31 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 3,427#69 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,432#212 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 932#329 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 328#832 | Down 273 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 689#450 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 117#1,746 | Down 79 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 274#945 | Down 84 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 177#1,271 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 264#969 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 562#540 | Up 52 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 167#1,338 | Down 403 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 448#645 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 327#835 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 338#810 | Up 155 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 94#2,035 | Down 805 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 286#919 | Down 256 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 224#1,081 | Up 496 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 252#1,002 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 248#1,012 | Up 127 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 195#1,189 | Down 223 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 85#2,193 | Down 752 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 174#1,289 | Up 63 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 146#1,477 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 170#1,316 | Up 275 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 151#1,435 | Up 82 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 134#1,580 | Down 325 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 174#1,290 | Up 302 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 83#2,238 | Up 473 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 271#953 | Up 408 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 170#1,317 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 144#1,492 | Up 297 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 143#1,499 | Up 599 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 86#2,172 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 82#2,255 | Up 567 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 142#1,511 | Down 518 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 100#1,941 | Down 151 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 169#1,325 | Up 829 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 79#2,325 | Up 564 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 130#1,610 | Up 261 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 90#2,098 | Down 330 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 137#1,547 | Up 244 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 102#1,910 | Up 557 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 121#1,702 | Up 221 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 166#1,340 | Up 1,341 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 118#1,732 | Up 683 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 84#2,213 | Up 1,625 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 184#1,228 | Up 10,895 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 81#2,275 | Up 6,115 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 77#2,367 | new | 2025 |
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Z names climbing fastest
Biggest Z names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.