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Zinnia

#1,290 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

Zinnia has been given to 2,685 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #1,290 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 177 recorded.

Babies named Zinnia, 2025

1 in 19,100

Zinnia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zinnia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

English

What Zinnia means

Zinnia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zinnia is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,685 girls were recorded with the name Zinnia between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 177 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,290 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,592 in 2020 to #1,290 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,757 in 2015 to #1,290 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zinnia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,100
174 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,240
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,290
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zinnia 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 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,207 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zinnia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zinnias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zinnia was born before 2017 — so the typical Zinnia is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,674
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Choose a decade

2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (990).

Is Zinnia 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
+50
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+302
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+467
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.45×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
98.3%
Peak was 2023 (177)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,290
2025

Spellings of Zinnia

Zinnia is not the most common spelling — Minnie is, with 61.9% against Zinnia's 1.0%.

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 Zinnia is used

Across 2016–2025, Zinnia was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 12,253 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 50,000).

218 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 5,556
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,556
  3. 3Arizona1 in 9,091
  4. 4California1 in 9,091
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  6. 6New York1 in 10,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 10,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 11,111

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.

Zinnia around the world

Where Zinnia 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 & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zinnia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,290
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 302
Best rank ever
#1,290
2025
Peak year
2023
177 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,685
Count in 2025
174

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

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Names with a curve like Zinnia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zinnia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zinnia

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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