Zula
Zula was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,276 among girls’ names; 4,450 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zula?
#17,276 among girls’ names, 2025
Zula entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #17,276 in 2025.
127 babies in 1922, the peak
Zula peaked in 1922, when 127 girls were given it, #652 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,276 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,585 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,630 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,624 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,282 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,398 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #7,019 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,798 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,834 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,771 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,546 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,960 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,568 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,182 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #18,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,534 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,765 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,849 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,694 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,564 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,923 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,465 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,323 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,478 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,578 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,282 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,951 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,595 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,403 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 44 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 32 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 45 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 34 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 51 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 58 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 50 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 59 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 71 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 64 | #935 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 66 | #923 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 84 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 96 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 95 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 102 | #723 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 127 | #652 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 91 | #770 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 105 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 116 | #645 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 96 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 107 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1916 | 105 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 102 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 88 | #612 | 0.12 |
| 1913 | 80 | #572 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 69 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1911 | 59 | #557 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 70 | #489 | 0.18 |
| 1909 | 76 | #425 | 0.22 |
| 1908 | 53 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1907 | 72 | #423 | 0.23 |
| 1906 | 58 | #452 | 0.20 |
| 1905 | 61 | #432 | 0.21 |
| 1904 | 74 | #384 | 0.27 |
| 1903 | 74 | #372 | 0.28 |
| 1902 | 66 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1901 | 57 | #391 | 0.24 |
| 1900 | 71 | #396 | 0.24 |
| 1899 | 60 | #377 | 0.26 |
| 1898 | 83 | #342 | 0.32 |
| 1897 | 79 | #331 | 0.34 |
| 1896 | 65 | #362 | 0.27 |
| 1895 | 55 | #378 | 0.24 |
| 1894 | 64 | #348 | 0.29 |
| 1893 | 70 | #322 | 0.33 |
| 1892 | 53 | #370 | 0.25 |
| 1891 | 45 | #376 | 0.24 |
| 1890 | 65 | #314 | 0.34 |
| 1889 | 55 | #337 | 0.31 |
| 1888 | 45 | #361 | 0.25 |
| 1887 | 33 | #377 | 0.23 |
| 1886 | 43 | #325 | 0.30 |
| 1885 | 38 | #336 | 0.29 |
| 1884 | 27 | #390 | 0.21 |
| 1883 | 25 | #374 | 0.22 |
| 1882 | 21 | #406 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 27 | #311 | 0.29 |
| 1880 | 27 | #308 | 0.30 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zula, and how old are they?
An estimated 523 Americans named Zula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 12 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 641 people named Zula (634 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 665 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 Zula born?
The states with the most babies named Zula are Texas, North Carolina and Kentucky, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 251 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 250 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Kentucky | 228 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Tennessee | 193 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Mississippi | 138 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Alabama | 135 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Oklahoma | 113 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 100 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Arkansas | 49 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 37 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Zula is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zula is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 3.1 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 Zula 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,448 babies since 1880, Zula is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 29 babies (17%), the fourth 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 Zula
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 Zula and names like it
- Compare Zula and ZullyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sZula peaked in 1922.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zula since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Zula.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Zula alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.