Zella
Recorded for girlsSilent Generation2025 rank
#1,746
up +105 places
2025 births
117
up +8 births
All-time births
13,369
1% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1917
- 298 births
- Best rank
- #220
- in 1888
- First recorded
- 1880
- #281 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1938
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 138 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1917298#365Peak
- 1921280#406
- 1923267#408
- 1915265#371
- 1919255#405
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #220 in 1888 · peak births 298 in 1917
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Zella has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The boys' series
No boys have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.