Zellie
Zellie was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,904 among girls’ names; 271 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zellie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zellie?
#10,904 among girls’ names, 2025
Zellie fell from #9,470 in 2015 to #10,904 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 5.6 per million.
17 babies in 1918, the peak
Zellie peaked in 1918, when 17 babies were given it (12 girls, #2,817 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,904 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,106 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,295 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,370 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,963 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,942 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,724 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,528 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,099 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,101 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,470 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,940 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,561 | 4.0 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,537 | 2.6 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,362 | 3.6 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,896 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,721 | 5.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,764 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,733 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,954 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 8 | #4,017 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,966 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,808 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,817 | 10.4 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,408 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,266 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,195 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,328 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,436 | 9.0 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,725 | 23.7 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,873 | 21.8 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,080 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,041 | 18.9 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,796 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zellie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 271 Americans recorded as Zellie, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zellie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zellie, and how old are they?
An estimated 138 Americans named Zellie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 175 people named Zellie (152 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 84 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Zellie?
Zellie is a less common spelling of Zelie: SSA has recorded 271 Zellie and 1,264 Zelie since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 16,081 babies since 1880, Zellie is the fourth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 280 babies (3.2%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zellie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Rosabelle | 1,379 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zellie and names like it
- Compare Zellie and ZelieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sZellie peaked in 1918.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Zellie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zellie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.