Zell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Zell

The Social Security Administration has registered 370 babies named Zell between 1898 and 1958, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1958. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Zell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 213 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zell performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Zell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Virginia and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Zell in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zell 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 370 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.