Zy
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zy has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2019, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Zy, 2023
1 in 331,000
Zy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Zy over time
In 2023, Zy went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Zy?
Zy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 331,000
- 10 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,764 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,764 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zy was born before 2017 — so the typical Zy is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (33).
Is Zy 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 2019 (11)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.6% average annual change
Zy around the world
Where Zy 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 Australia2005–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.