Zenda
Zenda was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 324 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zenda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zenda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,136, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1953, the peak
Zenda peaked in 1953, when 22 girls were given it, #2,299 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #16,136 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,249 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,322 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,092 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,644 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,561 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,209 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,062 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,773 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,432 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 10 | #5,477 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,807 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,989 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,699 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,776 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,847 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,620 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,290 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,543 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,918 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,617 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,190 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,916 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,824 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,726 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,155 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,299 | 11.7 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,387 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,734 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,610 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,645 | 4.1 |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,082 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #5,023 | 4.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,922 | 4.7 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,891 | 4.0 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,593 | 7.5 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,608 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zenda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zenda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zenda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zenda, and how old are they?
An estimated 251 Americans named Zenda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 52 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 346 people named Zenda (344 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 268 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Zenda rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,299 babies since 1880, Zenda is the third most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 238 babies recorded by SSA was a Zenda (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Zenda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanjuanita | 3,476 |
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 Zenda and names like it
- Compare Zenda and ZendayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sZenda peaked in 1953.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Zenda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Zenda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.