Meaning not yet researched.
Zeppelin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,227 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,227 in 2022; #1,508 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Zeppelin in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,508 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,227.
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Zeppelin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,227 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 161 (2022).
In 2025, 117 US boys were named Zeppelin, making it the 1,508th most common boys’ name of the year, down 126 places from #1,382 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 137 boys named Zeppelin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,227, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 161. For comparison, it was #2,054 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Zeppelin, making it the 7,482nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,871 places from #5,611 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 23 girls named Zeppelin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,675, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 42. For comparison, it was #10,141 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zeppelin in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 5 babies. In all, 1,793 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 983 babies named Zeppelin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,184 US boys were named Zeppelin; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 161. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,599 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zeppelin ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #706 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zeppelyn are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zeppelyn (32).
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 Zeppelin 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6 | #706 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #843 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #868 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #925 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,095 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,109 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,255 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,413 | #1,759 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,469 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,828 | #2,269 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,482 | 117 | #1,508 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,611 | 137 | #1,382 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,996 | 136 | #1,379 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,890 | 161 | #1,227 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,675 | 137 | #1,359 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,168 | 115 | #1,487 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,907 | 99 | #1,651 |
| 2018 | 21 | #6,007 | 118 | #1,477 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,772 | 93 | #1,706 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,398 | 71 | #2,027 |
| 2015 | 11 | #10,141 | 70 | #2,054 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,122 | 44 | #2,752 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,243 | 44 | #2,714 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #3,001 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,656 |
| 2010 | — | — | 26 | #3,993 |
| 2009 | — | — | 20 | #4,921 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,759 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,617 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #10,139 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #11,344 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,754 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #10,325 |
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).