girls:
134 births since 1891
#5582 (2nd percentile)
boys:
823 births since 1884
#3764 (18th percentile)
overall:
957 births since 1884
#6782 (12th percentile)
The name Zollie is the #6,782 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 957 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 12.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,764 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 823 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,582 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 134 births since 1891.
Zollie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1891 for girls). Birth data for Zollie is available in 80 out of the 120 years between 1884 and 2003 (78 years for boys and 22 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 Zollie has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2003, 0.0% of babies named Zollie were boys. Interestingly, until around 1994, the name was more popular for boys (86.4% boys from 1884 to 1993), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1994 to 2003).
For boys, Zollie reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #484) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 87 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
For girls, Zollie reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #572) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zollie".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Zollie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.7% confident that Zollie is pronounced as ZAH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZAW-lee, at 13.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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