girls:
414 births since 1886
#5302 (7th percentile)
overall:
414 births since 1886
#7325 (5th percentile)
The name Zelphia is the #7,325 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 414 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 5.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,302 (7.2% percentile) for all time with 414 births since 1886.
Zelphia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for girls in 1886). Birth data for Zelphia is available in 48 out of the 85 years between 1886 and 1970. 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, Zelphia reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #591) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 33 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zelphia".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Zelphia is pronounced as ZEHL-fee-uh, which has 3 syllables.
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