Ziggy

What Ziggy means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ziggy yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #372 vs #1,486 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ziggy?

US: Rising: up from #2722 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #903 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 168 boys got the name (#1191 that year). First in the US records in 1988.

How common

• About 1 in 14,354 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,428 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.36 per 1,000 boys), CO (0.26 per 1,000 boys), WA (0.15 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ziggy is #1486 in the US and #372 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 85.6% of US babies named Ziggy were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Siggi5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ziggy

Boys

• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Zayden#213Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*

For a sister

• Evie#270Editor’s note Up from #510 in 2015 to #270 in 2025 in the US
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US
• Lia#200Latin, meaning “cow”^*
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ziggy’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.