Zephyr — #1132 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zephyr

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,355 babies named Zephyr between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zephyr currently holds the #1132 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 194 babies received it in a single year. Zephyr is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 666 additional births since 1905.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zephyr performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,070 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Zephyr shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 550 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Zephyr in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zephyr 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 2,355 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.