Zenobia
Zenobia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. Its best rank was 683rd, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 310.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192362 births
- Best rank
- #683in 1909
- Since 1881
- 4,573people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,573 girls have been named Zenobia in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 62 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1920s alone account for 11%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Zenobia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 43 | |
| 1890s | 93 | |
| 1900s | 159 | |
| 1910s | 401 | |
| 1920s | 497 | |
| 1930s | 342 | |
| 1940s | 351 | |
| 1950s | 426 | |
| 1960s | 371 | |
| 1970s | 368 | |
| 1980s | 335 | |
| 1990s | 335 | |
| 2000s | 277 | |
| 2010s | 392 | |
| 2020s | 183 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Zenobia was the 940th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Zenobia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Petrapeak 1927
- Esterpeak 1925
- Catherinepeak 1956
- Ceceliapeak 1918
- Corinnepeak 1978
- Flaviapeak 1921
- Adelapeak 2015
- Arlenapeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.