Zeppelin
Zeppelin is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 117 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,480 among girls’ names and #1,508 among boys’, #2,939 among all names counting both); 1,793 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Zeppelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zeppelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zeppelin?
#1,508 among boys’ names, 2025
Zeppelin rose from #2,054 in 2015 to #1,508 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 36.5 to 68.5 per million.
200 babies in 2022, the peak
Zeppelin peaked in 2022, when 200 babies were given it (161 boys, #1,227 among boys’ names). The 132 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,480 | 117 | #1,508 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,608 | 137 | #1,382 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,993 | 136 | #1,379 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,888 | 161 | #1,227 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,674 | 137 | #1,359 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,166 | 115 | #1,487 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,906 | 99 | #1,651 |
| 2018 | 21 | #6,003 | 118 | #1,477 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,768 | 93 | #1,706 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,395 | 71 | #2,027 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,136 | 70 | #2,054 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,117 | 44 | #2,750 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,238 | 44 | #2,712 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 39 | #2,999 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 21 | #4,654 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 26 | #3,992 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 20 | #4,919 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 13 | #6,754 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 13 | #6,613 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,648 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 7 | #10,132 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #11,337 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #12,746 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #10,318 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zeppelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,793 Americans recorded as Zeppelin, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zeppelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zeppelin, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,793 Americans ever recorded as Zeppelin. The median Zeppelin alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 680 people named Zeppelin (93 women and girls, 587 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 155 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Zeppelin born?
The states with the most babies named Zeppelin are Texas, California and Georgia, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,413 | 0.9× |
| California | 9 | #1,828 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,095 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 7 | #843 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,109 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #925 | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 6 | #706 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 6 | #868 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,469 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,255 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zeppelin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,041 babies since 1880, Zeppelin is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 132 of their 150 babies (88%), again the 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 Zeppelin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Zeppelin and names like it
- Compare Zeppelin and ZepplinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZeppelin peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zeppelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zeppelin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zeppelin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.