Zelina — #6972 US girls' name
309 babies named Zelina in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 61% of names given to girls today.
28% of everyone ever named Zelina was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Zelina in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Zelina
The Social Security Administration has registered 309 babies named Zelina between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zelina currently holds the #6972 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Zelina performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Zelina shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 33 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zelina in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Zelina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 309 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Zelina at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Zelina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1968
- Peak year (2018)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
Currently ranks #6972 among girls.
309 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 20 births in a single year.
Zelina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 86 births that decade — 28% of Zelina's all-time total
Zelina decade highlights
- Peak decade 86 births
- Runner-up 86 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Zelina's strongest decade
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Zelina by state
Where Zelina concentrates geographically — total births since 1968
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 33 | 10.7% |
33 of 309 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 10.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 10.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.