Zulay
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- soo-LY
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Zulay is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Zulay come from?
Latin American name; source uncertain, perhaps from Zuleika
Is Zulay a girl's or a boy's name?
Zulay is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zulay in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 56% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Zulay, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,310th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 45 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.
2025 had fewer girls named Zulay than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Zulay in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zulay in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,951 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,310 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,436 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,189 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,623 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,567 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,515 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,889 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,459 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,330 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,858 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,321 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,724 |
Names like Zulay
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Zaya, Safa, Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Zaira, Zayla, Salem, Hadassah, Aaliyah, Zahara, Zamira
Names related to Zulay
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zulay: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zulay, updated 20 October 2026.