Zell
About 583 American babies have been named Zell since 1898, most of them around 1925. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 120 Zells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Zell boys named Zell
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 583
- Estimated living today
- 120
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 1925
- Best rank
- 1,891st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1898
- Girls / boys
- 370 / 213
How old the living Zells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 583 babies given the name since 1898, about 120 are alive — 21 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 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.
Notable Zells
- Zell Miller (1932–2018)American politician
People named Zell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Zell is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1925
The most popular girls’ names the year Zell peaked:
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Zell 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.