Zepplin

#7,186 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Zepplin has been given to 129 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #7,186 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Zepplin, 2025

1 in 276,000

Zepplin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,186
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zepplin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zepplin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zepplins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zepplin was born before 2019 — so the typical Zepplin is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
129
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Choose a decade

2010s — 48.1% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Zepplin 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
+2,687
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+301
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,849
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.6%
Peak was 2022 (17)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,627
2022

Spellings of Zepplin

Zepplin is not the most common spelling — Zeppelin is, with 92.1% against Zepplin's 7.9%.

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.

Zepplin around the world

Where Zepplin 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.

  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zepplin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,186
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 301
Best rank ever
#5,627
2022
Peak year
2022
17 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
129
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Zepplin

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

Sibling names for Zepplin

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

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