Baby Names That Start With Z
Girls' and boys' names beginning with Z, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with Z, 2025
- 1.7%
- vs 0.57% in 2000
- Girls' Z names in use
- 540
- 1,403 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 2023
- at 1.8% of names
- Boys with Z, 2025
- 1.6%
- vs 1.6% in 2000
- Boys' Z names in use
- 448
- 1,050 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1994
- at 1.7% of names
How Z has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with Z, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,646#216 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 5,646#31 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 3,427#69 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,051#324 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 2,496#142 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,657#214 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 116#1,513 | Down 395 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 558#538 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 804#397 | Down 116 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,432#212 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 932#329 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 328#832 | Down 273 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 689#450 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 117#1,746 | Down 79 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 1,381#253 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 644#473 | Down 79 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 466#609 | Down 98 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 285#856 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 274#945 | Down 84 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 177#1,271 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 264#969 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 522#567 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 601#503 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 562#540 | Up 52 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 167#1,338 | Down 403 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 126#1,435 | Down 128 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,077#317 | Up 127 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 311#803 | Down 128 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 448#645 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 402#677 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 327#835 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 338#810 | Up 155 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 214#1,037 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 94#2,035 | Down 805 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 286#919 | Down 256 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 277#866 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 224#1,081 | Up 496 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 442#633 | Up 147 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 252#1,002 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 356#738 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 249#947 | Up 176 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 327#780 | Up 246 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 528#563 | Up 341 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 248#1,012 | Up 127 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 195#1,189 | Down 223 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 85#2,193 | Down 752 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 174#1,289 | Up 63 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 123#1,458 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 146#1,477 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 170#1,316 | Up 275 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 340#759 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 151#1,435 | Up 82 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 114#1,528 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 134#1,580 | Down 325 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 185#1,144 | Up 55 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 140#1,351 | Down 151 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 174#1,290 | Up 302 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 83#2,238 | Up 473 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 202#1,072 | Up 426 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 271#953 | Up 408 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 170#1,317 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 169#1,203 | Up 67 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 189#1,130 | Up 266 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 144#1,492 | Up 297 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 206#1,062 | Up 79 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 169#1,202 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 221#1,017 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 110#1,563 | Down 156 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 143#1,499 | Up 599 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 86#2,172 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 249#946 | Up 542 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 82#2,255 | Up 567 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 142#1,511 | Down 518 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 95#1,727 | Up 484 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 100#1,941 | Down 151 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 112#1,546 | Up 231 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 105#1,620 | Up 402 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 169#1,325 | Up 829 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 123#1,457 | Up 285 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 79#2,325 | Up 564 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 134#1,380 | Up 881 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 117#1,508 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 119#1,491 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 130#1,610 | Up 261 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 90#2,098 | Down 330 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 137#1,547 | Up 244 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 102#1,910 | Up 557 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 121#1,702 | Up 221 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 166#1,340 | Up 1,341 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 118#1,732 | Up 683 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 92#1,770 | Up 1,645 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 84#2,213 | Up 1,625 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 134#1,381 | Up 1,957 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 107#1,601 | Up 1,055 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 85#1,865 | Up 892 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,676 | Up 1,737 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 184#1,228 | Up 10,895 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 81#2,275 | Up 6,115 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 141#1,346 | Up 10,638 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 77#2,367 | new | 2025 |
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Z names climbing fastest
Biggest Z names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Z names climbing fastest
Biggest Z names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
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Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.