girls:
4.5k births since 1881
#2526 (56th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1881
#4052 (48th percentile)
The name Zenobia is the #4,052 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,542 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 47.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,526 (55.8% percentile) for all time with 4,542 births since 1881.
Zenobia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for girls in 1881). Birth data for Zenobia is available in 139 out of the 143 years between 1881 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, Zenobia reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 9.4% percentile (ranked #553) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 95 births per million (ranked 7.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Zenobia ranks #911 for girls (3.8% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 24.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zenobia".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Zenobia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.2% confident that Zenobia is pronounced as zih-NOH-bee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zuh-NOH-bee-uh, at 38.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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