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Zabdiel vs Zabrina

American parents have registered 1,533 Zabdiels since 1880, against 1,374 Zabrinas. Zabdiel is still ahead, with 134 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zabdiel against Zabrina, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zabdiel Zabrina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Zabrina for 41 years and Zabdiel for 20 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Zabdiel Zabrina
Total US births 1,5331,374
Most in one year 20550
Babies in 2025 134under 5
Estimated living today 1,5001,300
Median age today 634
Peak year 20221977
Best rank 1,069th boys1,952nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,376thunranked
First recorded 19861965
Girls / boys 0 / 1,5331,374 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zabrinas alive today are over 34; half the Zabdiels are over 6. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zabdiel and Zabrina.