Zimal
#5,408 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zimal has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #5,408 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Zimal, 2025
1 in 138,000
Zimal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zimal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 67,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,408
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zimal 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zimal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zimals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zimal was born before 2021 — so the typical Zimal is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 64.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 293
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 64.8% of all recorded uses (190).
Is Zimal 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
- +548
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,509
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,064
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 46.2%
- Peak was 2022 (52)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.0% average annual change
Spellings of Zimal
Zimal is not the most common spelling — Ima is, with 16.7% against Zimal's 0.72%.
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 Zimal is used
Across 1910–2025, Zimal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 514,763 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Maryland1 in —
- 4New Jersey1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
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. Zimal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zimal around the world
Where Zimal 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 & Wales2010–2025#439in 2025
- Scotland2016–2025#780in 2025
- Ireland2019–2025#885in 2025
- France2021–2025#6,755in 2025
- Canada2014–2024#1,615in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zimal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zimal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zimal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.