Zelie Girl
How popular is Zelie?
#1,692 girl name in 2025
121 baby girls were named Zelie in the US in 2025, making it the 1692nd most popular girl name.
Zelie popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,692 for girls (▲ 118 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 121 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+142% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,254 in 2015, #1,908 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (142 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,491 in 2021 |
| First recorded | 2002 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Zelie counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Zelie family of names ranked #1,326 for girls in 2025 (#1,397 the year before), with 130 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Zelie | 121 | 93% |
| Zellie | 9 | 7% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Zelie is most popular
Babies named Zelie per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- North Dakota: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Kansas: 0.3 per 1,000 (17 girls)
- Minnesota: 0.2 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Colorado: 0.2 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Michigan: 0.2 per 1,000 (29 girls)
Zelie by decade
Girl names about as popular as Zelie
Questions
- Is Zelie a boy or girl name?
- Zelie is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Zelie were girls.
- How popular is the name Zelie?
- 121 baby girls were named Zelie in the US in 2025, making it the 1692nd most popular girl name.
- When was Zelie most popular?
- Zelie peaked in 2021, when 142 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,491 in 2021.
- How many people are named Zelie?
- 1,264 babies have been named Zelie in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,259 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 6.
- Where is Zelie most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Zelie was most common in North Dakota, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.