Girl Names That Start With Z
These are the 16 girl names that start with Z, have reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880, and still go to girls rather than boys today. Ranked by the number of girls given each name in 2025, most common first.
All 16 names
Girl names that start with Z in the 2025 data
Z is the eighteenth most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 27,739 of them, 1.7% of every girl in the file. It has climbed from nineteenth place a decade ago, and its share has grown from 1.6% to 1.7%.
This list holds the 16 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Zoe, #31 with 5,646 girls in 2025. 2 of the 16 are in this year's top 100, and 16 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Together they account for 13,351 of those 27,739 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.
The fastest climber among them is Zara, up from #401 in 2015 to #212 in 2025. Zoey has gone the other way, from #23 to #69. The shortest name here is Zoe at 3 letters, the longest Zariah at 6.
Questions about girl names that start with Z
What is the most popular girl name that starts with Z?
Zoe. 5,646 girls were given the name in 2025, which put it at #31 nationally.
How many girl names start with Z?
16 have reached the top 500 as a girl's name and still go to girls today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 27,739 girls born in 2025 — 1.7% of the total — were given a name starting with Z.
Are girl names that start with Z getting more popular?
Z is gaining ground. It was nineteenth among first letters for girls a decade ago with 1.6% of births, and it is eighteenth in 2025 with 1.7%.