Zeppelin is a rock-and-roll name taken from the band Led Zeppelin, who in turn borrowed the word for the rigid "airship" named after its inventor, the German count Ferdinand von Zeppelin; the family name itself comes from a village near Rostock. It joins Lennon, Hendrix and Jagger among music-inspired boys' names. Zeppelin climbed from number 2054 in 2015 to number 1227 in 2022 and ranks number 1508 in 2025.