girls:
13.1k births since 1880
#1359 (76th percentile)
overall:
13.1k births since 1880
#2293 (70th percentile)
The name Zella is the #2,293 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,141 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,359 (76.2% percentile) for all time with 13,141 births since 1880.
Zella has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Zella is available in 136 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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, Zella reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 42.9% percentile (ranked #330) with 265 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 586 births per million (ranked 35.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Zella ranks #821 for girls (13.3% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 12.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zella".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Zella. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Zella is pronounced as ZEH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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