Zael
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,376 for boys in 2025, 134 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 134 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 673since 2004
Zael over time
Rank among boys' names. Zael has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,376 | 134 |
| 2024 | — | #1,820 | 89 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,416 | 56 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,117 | 70 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,253 | 62 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,274 | 34 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,766 | 45 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,055 | 38 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,331 | 23 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,789 | 15 | |
| 2015 | — | #6,676 | 12 | |
| 2014 | — | #6,632 | 12 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,158 | 9 | |
| 2011 | — | #6,578 | 12 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | — | #11,037 | 6 | |
| 2007 | — | #8,173 | 9 | |
| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zael! It came in at #8,927, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2008, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Zael is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#720 · 1 in 4,090
- Massachusetts#789 · 1 in 5,404
- California#845 · 1 in 6,267
- Texas#915 · 1 in 6,483
- New York#994 · 1 in 7,035
Best ever in a state: #720 in Arizona, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #720 | 8 | 1 in 4,090 |
| Massachusetts | #789 | 5 | 1 in 5,404 |
| California | #845 | 28 | 1 in 6,267 |
| Texas | #915 | 27 | 1 in 6,483 |
| New York | #994 | 12 | 1 in 7,035 |
| Florida | #1,009 | 13 | 1 in 7,349 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
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See more about Zael
- 444 spots since 2024 (#1,820 → #1,376)
- 1,898 spots since 2020 (#3,274 → #1,376)
- 5,300 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #1,376)
- Debuted 2004
- Peaked 2025 at #1,376 (134 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,747 boys born in 2025 were named Zael (0.01%)
- 66.1% of all boys named Zael (445) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 2000s | 46 | #7,692 (2009) | #9,119 |
| 2010s | 182 | #2,766 (2019) | #6,180 |
| 2020s | 445 | #1,376 (2025) | #2,209 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zael in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 321,453 of them was named Zael, which outranked 13.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Tied with 2,355 names at #14,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 12,747 of them was named Zael, which outranked 90.1% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,370Perry135
- #1,370Rolando135
- #1,370Shaya135
- #1,376Zael134
- #1,376Coen134
- #1,376Kamryn134
- #1,376Kashmir134
- #1,382Brett133
- #1,382Deon133
- #1,382Ivar133
Tied with 5 names at #1,376; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.