Zeny

Girls' name

Diminutive of Zenaida

Zeny has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2002. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Zeny, 2002

1 in 747,000

Zeny over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeny: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Zenaida

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zeny means

Zeny is a diminutive of Zenaida.

Origin, language, and formation

Zeny is used in Tagalog.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zenaida.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Zeny is pronounced /ˈzeni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Zeny between 2002 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2002; its best national rank was #18,065 in 2002.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Zeny?

Zeny had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002: 1 in 747,000; 5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only: 1 in 359,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 518,097 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zeny sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zenys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeny was born before 2002 — so the typical Zeny is around 23 today.

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Zeny 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2002 (5)
Years since peak: 23; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #18,065; 2002

Spellings of Zeny

Zeny is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 26.8% against Zeny's <0.01%.

Wendy26.8%262,325
Lena14.9%146,479
Zoey11.8%115,332
Penny10.3%100,619
Jenny9.4%92,101
Rena4.0%39,124
Dena3.3%32,479
Kenya2.6%25,412

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.

Zeny around the world

Where Zeny 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.

France
2015–2015
#5,768
in 2015

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Zeny by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #18,065; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 5 that year
First recorded: 2002
Last recorded: 2002
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Zeny

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Zenas Zendy Zenat Zenah Zene Zenara Zenai Reny Zenyah Zenyla Zeni Zeneth Zenlee Zenni Teny Gleny Keny Ereny Zenona Zenida Zenova Zenorah Zenolia Zenaiya

Sibling names for Zeny

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Iyana Alize Lisbeth Vanesa Shakira Kaiya Shreya Anastacia

For a brother

Dallin Keyon Kelton Donavan Alexandre Jaylon Jaylin Destin

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