Zissy
Zissy was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,437 among girls’ names; 1,030 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Zissy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zissy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zissy?
#2,437 among girls’ names, 2025
Zissy rose from #3,702 in 2015 to #2,437 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.5 to 46.0 per million.
74 babies in 2025, the peak
Zissy peaked in 2025, when 74 girls were given it, #2,437 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 70 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,437 | 46.0 |
| 2024 | 70 | #2,557 | 43.2 |
| 2023 | 49 | #3,326 | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,955 | 34.8 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,891 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,545 | 26.6 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,849 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,494 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,550 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,980 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,702 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,265 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,752 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,044 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,566 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,635 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,060 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,569 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,129 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,836 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,131 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,481 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,829 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,826 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,714 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,930 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,705 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,113 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,147 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,805 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,758 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,578 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,579 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,057 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,325 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,226 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,671 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,252 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,902 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,415 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,406 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,469 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,647 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,614 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,663 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zissy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zissy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zissy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zissy, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,030 Americans ever recorded as Zissy. The median Zissy alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 612 people named Zissy (611 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 682 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 91 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 304 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 605 |
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 Zissy born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 69 | #248 | 10.3× |
Where Zissy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zissy is most over-represented in New York: since 1972 it was given 10.3 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 Zissy 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 Zissy
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 Zissy and names like it
- Compare Zissy and YittyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZissy peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zissy since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Zissy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zissy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.