Zully
Zully was given to 10 girls in 2025, #10,099 among girls’ names; 755 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zully by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zully?
#10,099 among girls’ names, 2025
Zully fell from #8,440 in 2015 to #10,099 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 6.2 per million.
43 babies in 2008, the peak
Zully peaked in 2008, when 43 girls were given it, #3,776 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #10,099 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,586 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,605 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,747 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,972 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #15,076 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,529 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,436 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,226 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,440 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,946 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,602 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,866 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,776 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,506 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,534 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,776 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,376 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,121 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,118 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,762 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,772 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,668 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,747 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,974 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,707 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,793 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,814 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,733 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,035 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,109 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,416 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,521 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,581 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,873 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,441 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,772 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,129 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,675 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,421 | 14.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,511 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,195 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,542 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,969 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,930 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,649 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,911 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,170 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,771 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,289 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,385 | 4.2 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,206 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zully a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zully has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zully: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zully, and how old are they?
An estimated 740 Americans named Zully and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,289 people named Zully (1,269 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 686 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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).
Where are babies named Zully born?
The states with the most babies named Zully are California, Texas and New York, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 178 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 44 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zully is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zully is most over-represented in California: since 1955 it was given 1.8 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 Zully 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, Zully is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 29 babies (34%), 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 Zully
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 Zully and names like it
- Compare Zully and ZulaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZully peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zully since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Zully.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zully alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.