Zenith — #5429 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Zenith

The Social Security Administration has registered 436 babies named Zenith between 1897 and 2024, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zenith currently holds the #5429 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Zenith is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 387 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zenith performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 97 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Zenith shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zenith in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zenith 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 436 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.