Zeta
Zeta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 981st, in 1897.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200533 births
- Best rank
- #981in 1897
- Since 1888
- 1,338people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,338 girls have been named Zeta in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 33 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 2000s alone account for 17%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Zeta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 56 | |
| 1900s | 87 | |
| 1910s | 141 | |
| 1920s | 189 | |
| 1930s | 138 | |
| 1940s | 77 | |
| 1950s | 69 | |
| 1960s | 74 | |
| 1970s | 14 | |
| 1990s | 12 | |
| 2000s | 234 | |
| 2010s | 171 | |
| 2020s | 71 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Zeta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Zeta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ladypeak 2016
- Madalinepeak 1918
- Estherpeak 1918
- Velapeak 1915
- Faepeak 1916
- Eviapeak 1919
- Hildegardpeak 1915
- Aledapeak 1922
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.