Zuzu
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ZOO-zoo
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Zuzu is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “lily”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Zuzu mean?
Hebrew: pet form of Susanna, like Czech and Slovak Zuzana
“lily”
Zuzu Bailey is George Bailey's young daughter in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
Is Zuzu a girl's or a boy's name?
Zuzu is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zuzu in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Zuzu, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had fewer girls named Zuzu than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Zuzu in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zuzu in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,955 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,234 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,105 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
Names like Zuzu
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zuri, Salem, Nyomi, Tru, Zamira, Selah, Zayla, Remi, Zaya, Zaniyah, Zainab, Hadassah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Zuzu: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zuzu, updated 20 October 2026.