Zula
Zula is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 308th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1922127 births
- Best rank
- #308in 1880
- Since 1880
- 4,445people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,445 girls have been named Zula in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 127 births.
The name has all but left use: 15 births in 2024, against 127 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1917, and the 1910s alone account for 20%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Zula | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 341 | |
| 1890s | 639 | |
| 1900s | 662 | |
| 1910s | 892 | |
| 1920s | 872 | |
| 1930s | 487 | |
| 1940s | 258 | |
| 1950s | 113 | |
| 1960s | 30 | |
| 2000s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 73 | |
| 2020s | 68 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Zula was the 652nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Zula
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pearlpeak 1918
- Oniepeak 1918
- Odapeak 1918
- Mamiepeak 1919
- Myrtlepeak 1918
- Orphapeak 1917
- Polliepeak 1920
- Mabelpeak 1915
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.