Ziggy
Ziggy is given to both girls and boys: 20 girls and 119 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,111 among girls’ names and #1,491 among boys’, #2,845 among all names counting both); 1,778 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,760 Americans named Ziggy 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 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziggy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ziggy?
#1,491 among boys’ names, 2025
Ziggy rose from #2,764 in 2015 to #1,491 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 69.7 per million.
211 babies in 2022, the peak
Ziggy peaked in 2022, when 211 babies were given it (168 boys, #1,197 among boys’ names). The 139 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,111 | 119 | #1,491 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,665 | 144 | #1,340 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,273 | 132 | #1,403 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,649 | 168 | #1,197 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,714 | 140 | #1,333 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,448 | 129 | #1,373 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,338 | 108 | #1,562 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,787 | 79 | #1,899 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,802 | 57 | #2,316 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,981 | 46 | #2,686 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 44 | #2,764 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,483 | 44 | #2,751 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 34 | #3,262 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 27 | #3,890 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 39 | #2,998 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 31 | #3,529 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 39 | #3,043 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 25 | #4,140 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 21 | #4,636 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 20 | #4,670 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #11,454 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,937 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 14 | #5,550 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #12,477 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #8,330 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 5 | #12,109 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #10,321 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,484 |
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 Ziggy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,778 Americans recorded as Ziggy, 16% are girls and 84% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ziggy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziggy, and how old are they?
1,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,778 Americans ever recorded as Ziggy. The median Ziggy alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,066 people named Ziggy (179 women and girls, 887 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 793 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 244 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,510 |
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 Ziggy born?
The states with the most babies named Ziggy are California, Florida and Colorado, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Colorado is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,084 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,476 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 7 | #755 | 0.4× |
| Utah | 7 | #620 | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | #2,044 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,159 | 0.6× |
Where Ziggy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ziggy is most over-represented in California: since 1988 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Ziggy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ziggy
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 Ziggy and names like it
- Compare Ziggy and RyverBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ziggy since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Ziggy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ziggy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.