Zetta vs Zettie

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Zetta Zettie

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 113 years in which either name was published, Zetta for 89 years and Zettie for 24 years. The lead changed hands 30 times.

• 1880–1905 Zetta ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1906–1908 Zettie ahead
• 1913–1940 Zetta ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1949–1955 Zettie ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1956–2025 Zetta ahead, apart from one short spell

20 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Zetties alive today are over 76; half the Zettas are over 66. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Zetta Kentucky (16.8×)
• Zettie Mississippi (18.7×), Arkansas (13.4×), Alabama (9.4×)

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

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