girls:
255 births since 1896
#5461 (4th percentile)
overall:
255 births since 1896
#7484 (3rd percentile)
The name Zeda is the #7,484 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 255 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,461 (4.4% percentile) for all time with 255 births since 1896.
Zeda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (first recorded for girls in 1896). Birth data for Zeda is available in 35 out of the 127 years between 1896 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Zeda reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #595) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zeda".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Zeda is pronounced as ZEE-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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