Meaning not yet researched.
Zenith: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,407 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,407 in 2022; #3,087 in 2025. About 78% of babies named Zenith in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,087 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,407.
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Zenith: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,407 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 59 (2022).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Zenith, making it the 3,087th most common boys’ name of the year, down 173 places from #2,914 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 44 boys named Zenith in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,407, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 59. For comparison, it was #8,030 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Zenith, making it the 9,452nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,842 places from #5,610 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 23 girls named Zenith in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,549, reached in 1897. The most girls given the name in a single year was 26, in 2023. For comparison, it was #11,826 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zenith in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 6 babies. In all, 875 US babies have been given the name, 51% of them girls and 49% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 359 babies named Zenith.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 346 US boys were named Zenith; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 59. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Zeyneth, Zeineth and Cenith are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zeyneth (50), Zeineth (25), Cenith (10), Zeneth (7), Zennith (5), Zenat (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zenith in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,452 | 40 | #3,087 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,610 | 44 | #2,914 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,124 | 37 | #3,292 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,632 | 59 | #2,407 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,455 | 41 | #3,020 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,401 | 29 | #3,732 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,464 | 37 | #3,199 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,144 | 27 | #3,992 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,105 | 19 | #5,108 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,840 | 13 | #6,718 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,826 | 10 | #8,030 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,777 |
| 2013 | — | — | 5 | #14,048 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #9,705 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,807 | 8 | #9,587 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,684 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,568 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,143 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,459 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,256 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,542 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #6,060 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,195 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,338 | — | — |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,517 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,891 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,433 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,618 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,971 | 5 | #4,862 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,391 | 5 | #4,970 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,654 | 5 | #4,965 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,093 | 7 | #3,814 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,611 | 5 | #3,759 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,787 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,549 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).