Girl Names Starting With Z

Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin Z girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.

How common is Z as a first letter for girls in 2025?

Count births rather than names and Z lands 19th of the 26 initials for girls in 2025: 1.3% of the top-1,000 total, spread over 14 names. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims 2 of the table's 50 names, the 101–500 band claims 3, the 501–1,000 band claims 9, and 36 rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. The table's last row, Zyrielle, still carries 77 births at #2,367; any Z girl names below it are outside the committed per-letter depth of 50 and are not shown.

The 2025 Z table runs from Zoe at #31 to Zyrielle at #2,367, and Zoe's 5,646 births are 73.3 times Zyrielle's 77; all 50 rows together sum to 20,220 births. The middle row, the 25th, is Zamira at #1,325 with 169 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 165 ranks, from Zariyah (#645) to Zainab (#810); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 2 rows carry exactly the count of the row above them, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Zahara (#1,289) and Zinnia (#1,290), at 174 births each. Z's top-100 names for 2025 are Zoe (#31) and Zoey (#69), 2 of the table's 50.

How a rank like #31 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.

Z girl names across the decade snapshots

Z girl names appear in the top 200 in 3 of the 7 snapshot years: 1995 (1 name, led by Zoe at #176 with 1,726 births), 2005 (2 names, led by Zoe at #58 with 4,965 births) and 2015 (2 names, led by Zoey at #23 with 6,977 births). In the other 4 (1955, 1965, 1975, 1985), no Z girl name reached rank 200, which is where the committed decade files stop. The lead changed hands among 2 names across those 3 snapshots (Zoe and Zoey), and Zoe leads again in 2025, at #31.

Of the births inside each snapshot's top 200 for girls, Z names took 0.0% in 1955, 0.0% in 1965, 0.0% in 1975, 0.0% in 1985, 0.2% in 1995, 0.8% in 2005 and 1.6% in 2015; the largest of those 7 shares is 2015's and the smallest 1955's. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 2 Z names with 1.3% of its births, led by Zoe at #31. The move from 0.0% (1955) to 1.6% (2015) is Z's row in First-letter trends since 1955, the guide that tabulates all 26 initials for every snapshot year and both sexes, listed with the rest of the data guides.

Faded and new Z girl names

Nothing has faded at the committed depths: each Z girl name found in a snapshot top 200 is still on the 2025 list, and 2 of the table's 50 rows have at least one snapshot appearance.

The 2025 table also carries 48 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Zara (#212), Zuri (#329), Zariah (#450), Zahra (#540), Zariyah (#645), Zainab (#810), Zelda (#832), Zaniyah (#835), Zaylee (#919), Zaria (#945), Zyla (#953) and Zora (#969), and 36 more. Because the committed snapshots stop at rank 200, this says only that Zara (#212 in 2025) and the other 47 sat outside the top 200 in each of 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, not that they went unregistered in those years.

The shape of the 2025 Z list

On the SSA spelling, 16 of the 50 names in the 2025 Z table have four letters or fewer, 32 have five to seven, and 2 have eight or more. The 2025 rank spans by length class are 16 short spellings from Zoe at #31 to Zion at #2,035; 32 medium spellings from Zariah at #450 to Zarina at #2,325; and 2 long spellings from Zipporah at #2,238 to Zyrielle at #2,367. By letter count, Zoe is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (3 letters, #31) and Zipporah the longest (8 letters, #2,238). "a" is the second letter of 24 of the 50 names in the 2025 Z table, "o" of 7, and "i" of 6; 7 second letters are used in total.

Across the sexes, 1 of these 50 spellings also sits on the 2025 boys' Z list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Zion (#2,035 for girls, #142 for boys).

Z girl names: questions the data answers

What is the most popular girl name starting with Z in 2025?

Zoe. The 2025 SSA data records 5,646 girls named Zoe, which places it at #31 among all girl names that year, inside the overall top 100.

How many girl names starting with Z are in the 2025 top 1,000?

14. Together they account for 1.3% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 19th-largest share among the 26 initials.

Why does this page list 50 Z girl names?

The committed per-letter file holds the 50 most-registered 2025 girl names for each initial, and Z fills it: the 50th row is Zyrielle at #2,367. Any Z names below that cut are outside the committed depth and are not shown.

Which Z girl name on this page has the lowest rank?

Zyrielle, at #2,367 with 77 births in 2025. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so the span from #31 to #2,367 covers names that start with other letters.

How many Z girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?

None in 1955 and 2 in 2015 (led by Zoey at #23). Each snapshot is one SSA year ranked to a depth of 200, and Z's highest count among the 7 is 2 in 2005.

Do any of these Z girl names also appear on the boys' Z list for 2025?

Yes, 1 of the 50: Zion (#2,035 for girls, #142 for boys). The SSA ranks each sex on its own, which is why Zion carries #2,035 with 94 births for girls and #142 with 2,496 for boys.

Other letters

Boy names for this letter: boy names starting with Z.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.