Zelie
#1,702 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zelie has been given to 1,264 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #1,702 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 142 recorded.
Babies named Zelie, 2025
1 in 27,400
Zelie over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zelie?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 27,400
- 121 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 13,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,702
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 18,992 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zelie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 18,992 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zelie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zelies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zelie was born before 2020 — so the typical Zelie is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 55.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,264
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 55.1% of all recorded uses (696).
Is Zelie rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +120
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +221
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,595
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.42×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 85.2%
- Peak was 2021 (142)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.0% average annual change
Spellings of Zelie
Zelie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 25.1% against Zelie's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Zelie is used
Across 2016–2025, Zelie was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 18,559 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Zelie around the world
Where Zelie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1998–2025#3,705in 2025
- Ireland2022–2022#747in 2022
- France1900–2025#96in 2025
- Canada2009–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia2009–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zelie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zelie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zelie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.