Zelie
Zelie reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 1,491, and has been recorded 1,264 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,692nd. About 1,300 Zelies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zelie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,264
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 1,491st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,692nd
- First recorded
- 2002
How old the living Zelies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,264 babies given the name since 2002, about 1,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Zelie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Zelie is most concentrated in Kansas (7.1×), Colorado (4.5×), Texas (2.5×), Minnesota (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular girls’ names the year Zelie peaked:
Zelie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Zélie +2 spellings | 17,355 | 70th |
| Belgium girls | Zélie | 1,215 | 154th |
| Switzerland girls | Zélie | 392 | 302nd |
| England and Wales girls | Zelie | 70 | 3,156th |
| France boys | Zelie | 5 | 703rd |
| Ireland girls | Zélie | 4 | 747th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Zelie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Zélie | 12 | 0.001% | 1,017th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Zélie | 379 | 0.087% | 64th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Zélie | 1 | 0.002% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Zelie is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.12% of children were given it – 44 of them.
Zelie: rank by region
In 2025, Zelie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Zélie | 86 | 28 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Zelie appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (58th), Province of Namur (60th) and Province of Hainaut (90th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Zelie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.