Meaning not yet researched.
Zephyr: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,097 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,097 in 2021; #1,203 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Zephyr in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,203 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,097.
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Zephyr: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,097 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 195 (2022).
In 2025, 169 US boys were named Zephyr, making it the 1,203rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 75 places from #1,128 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 189 boys named Zephyr in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,097, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 195, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,368 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Zephyr, making it the 4,755th most common girls’ name of the year, down 283 places from #4,472 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 32 girls named Zephyr in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,138, reached in 1910. The most girls given the name in a single year was 42, in 2023. For comparison, it was #5,456 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zephyr in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 5 babies. In all, 3,223 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,319 babies named Zephyr.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,604 US boys were named Zephyr; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,107 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zephyr ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #603 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zypher and Zepher are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zypher (11), Zepher (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 Zephyr in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 6 | #603 | #713 |
| Washington | 11 | #638 | #844 |
| California | 36 | #744 | #896 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #813 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #847 | #782 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #903 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #924 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,346 | #1,644 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,351 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,437 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,042 | #1,619 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,755 | 169 | #1,203 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,472 | 189 | #1,128 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,708 | 189 | #1,123 |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,039 | 195 | #1,102 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,734 | 192 | #1,097 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,606 | 145 | #1,270 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,919 | 156 | #1,225 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,659 | 116 | #1,497 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,768 | 128 | #1,383 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,793 | 125 | #1,412 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,456 | 128 | #1,368 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,989 | 100 | #1,586 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,313 | 91 | #1,669 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,571 | 63 | #2,154 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,737 | 83 | #1,770 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,213 | 80 | #1,833 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,449 | 80 | #1,851 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,387 | 42 | #2,878 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,812 | 39 | #3,023 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,140 | 43 | #2,743 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,118 | 36 | #2,958 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,634 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,830 | 23 | #3,836 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,178 | 16 | #4,912 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,913 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,419 | 8 | #7,555 |
| 1996 | — | — | 6 | #9,009 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,860 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,766 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,420 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,231 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,823 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,580 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,417 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,046 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,108 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,460 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,549 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,600 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,301 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,782 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,864 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,811 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,202 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,229 | — | — |
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).