Zillah
Zillah was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,483 among girls’ names; 552 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zillah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zillah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zillah is “a female given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “shade” (צִלָּה).
From Hebrew צִלָּה (“shade”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zillah?
#7,483 among girls’ names, 2025
Zillah rose from #8,434 in 2015 to #7,483 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 9.3 per million.
20 babies in 2024, the peak
Zillah peaked in 2024, when 20 girls were given it, #6,158 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,483 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,158 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,982 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,532 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,404 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,073 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,779 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,654 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,434 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,224 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,434 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,474 | 7.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,186 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,134 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,220 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,413 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,072 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,810 | 5.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,997 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,816 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #18,068 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #11,006 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,583 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,144 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,326 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,409 | 3.3 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,565 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,161 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,599 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,301 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #4,026 | 6.6 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,639 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,777 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,161 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,095 | 9.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,813 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,672 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,691 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,254 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,269 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,432 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,703 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,629 | 12.5 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,789 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,545 | 14.4 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,819 | 22.0 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,082 | 19.1 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,676 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,929 | 20.0 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,552 | 25.6 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,296 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,351 | 31.4 |
| 1893 | 10 | #1,021 | 47.0 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,170 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,533 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,097 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 10 | #901 | 56.1 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,275 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,146 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 9 | #826 | 62.3 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,053 | 44.5 |
| 1881 | 7 | #739 | 76.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zillah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zillah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zillah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zillah, and how old are they?
An estimated 271 Americans named Zillah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 277 people named Zillah (276 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% 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.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,727 babies since 1880, Zillah is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 177 babies (8.5%), again the second 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 Zillah
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 Zillah and names like it
- Compare Zillah and ZylahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZillah peaked in 2024.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Zillah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Zillah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zillah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.