Zinnia
Zinnia was given to 174 girls in 2025, #1,290 among girls’ names; 2,685 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Zinnia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zinnia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zinnia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zinnia is “a female given name from English from the flower”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zinnia?
#1,290 among girls’ names, 2025
Zinnia rose from #1,757 in 2015 to #1,290 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.11 per 1,000.
177 babies in 2023, the peak
Zinnia peaked in 2023, when 177 girls were given it, #1,299 among girls’ names. The 174 births of 2025 are 98% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | #1,290 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 171 | #1,340 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 177 | #1,299 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 171 | #1,366 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 158 | #1,391 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,592 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,607 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 147 | #1,496 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,514 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,774 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,757 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,095 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,438 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,132 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,089 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,407 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,940 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,356 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,520 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,791 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,698 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,057 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,214 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,667 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,613 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,642 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,184 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,065 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,410 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,524 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,506 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,706 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,711 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,056 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,421 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,493 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,606 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,514 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,345 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,896 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,820 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,525 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,857 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,976 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,666 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,212 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,211 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,810 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,480 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,455 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,074 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,954 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,615 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,623 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,583 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,375 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,588 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zinnia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zinnia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zinnia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zinnia, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,685 Americans ever recorded as Zinnia. The median Zinnia alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,703 people named Zinnia (1,701 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,707 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 137 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 197 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 499 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,810 |
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 Zinnia born?
The states with the most babies named Zinnia are California, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,360 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,712 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #926 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 9 | #731 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 8 | #963 | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 7 | #810 | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | #2,070 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,146 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,435 | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,214 | 0.7× |
Where Zinnia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zinnia is most over-represented in California: since 1917 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Zinnia 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,772 babies since 1880, Zinnia is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 174 of their 293 babies (59%), the most given that year.
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 Zinnia
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 Zinnia and names like it
- Compare Zinnia and ZinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZinnia peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zinnia since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Zinnia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zinnia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zinnia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.