girls:
17 births since 2009
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
44 births since 2010
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
61 births since 2009
#7678 (1st percentile)
The name Ziel is the #7,678 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 61 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 2010. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2009.
Ziel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (2009 for girls and 2010 for boys). Birth data for Ziel is available in 9 out of the 15 years between 2009 and 2023 (7 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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 Ziel has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ziel were boys. Interestingly, until around 2010, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2009 to 2009), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (81.5% boys from 2010 to 2023).
For boys, Ziel reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #921) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ziel ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 63.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ziel reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ziel".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ziel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 2 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Zeal" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Zeal..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ziel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Ziel is pronounced as zeel, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZEE-uhl, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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