Ziggy — #1357 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ziggy

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,378 babies named Ziggy between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ziggy currently holds the #1357 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 168 babies received it in a single year. Ziggy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 257 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ziggy performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 709 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ziggy shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 214 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ziggy in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ziggy 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 1,378 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.