Zettie
Zettie was last recorded in 1966, when 6 babies were given it; 1,468 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zettie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zettie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,562, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1924, the peak
Zettie peaked in 1924, when 49 girls were given it, #1,122 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #6,562 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,528 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #5,004 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,862 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,847 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,181 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,241 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,406 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,693 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,223 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 12 | #3,488 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,809 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,794 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,574 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,233 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,132 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,348 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,635 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,032 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,740 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,806 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,556 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,212 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,094 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,962 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,919 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,112 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,538 | 23.5 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,260 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,306 | 30.5 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,833 | 18.2 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,399 | 27.8 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,596 | 22.5 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,684 | 20.7 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,288 | 31.1 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,524 | 24.2 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,191 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,826 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,719 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,607 | 23.0 |
| 1924 | 49 | #1,122 | 39.2 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,636 | 22.4 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,681 | 21.6 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,297 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,281 | 30.9 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,215 | 34.5 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,536 | 24.2 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,430 | 25.9 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,277 | 31.6 |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,230 | 33.5 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,261 | 32.8 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,228 | 35.2 |
| 1912 | 28 | #977 | 50.2 |
| 1911 | 20 | #1,006 | 47.8 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,520 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,368 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 21 | #881 | 62.8 |
| 1907 | 16 | #989 | 50.2 |
| 1906 | 17 | #916 | 57.6 |
| 1905 | 19 | #871 | 65.2 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,049 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 21 | #759 | 80.2 |
| 1902 | 18 | #848 | 68.2 |
| 1901 | 14 | #917 | 58.5 |
| 1900 | 19 | #884 | 63.4 |
| 1899 | 16 | #834 | 68.7 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,046 | 46.4 |
| 1897 | 13 | #930 | 55.5 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,212 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 22 | #684 | 94.2 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,134 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 20 | #661 | 93.9 |
| 1892 | 11 | #955 | 51.8 |
| 1891 | 11 | #892 | 59.3 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,205 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 9 | #949 | 50.5 |
| 1888 | 13 | #752 | 72.8 |
| 1887 | 8 | #936 | 54.8 |
| 1886 | 12 | #692 | 83.0 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,197 | 37.6 |
| 1884 | 9 | #792 | 69.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zettie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zettie has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Zettie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zettie, and how old are they?
An estimated 267 Americans named Zettie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 71 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 331 people named Zettie (300 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 368 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,526 babies since 1880, Zettie is the second most given (42% of them).
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 Zettie
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 Zettie and names like it
- Compare Zettie and ZettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sZettie peaked in 1924.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zettie since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Zettie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Zettie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.