girls:
13 births since 2018
#5703 (0th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1971
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
29 births since 1971
#7710 (0th percentile)
The name Zel is the #7,710 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,703 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2018.
Zel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 2018 for girls). Birth data for Zel is available in 3 out of the 49 years between 1971 and 2019. 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.
The name Zel has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (55.2% of all recorded births). In 2019, 61.1% of babies named Zel were boys.
For boys, Zel reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #911) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Zel reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #943) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zel".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Zel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Zel is pronounced as zehl, which has 1 syllables.
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