Zealand
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #1,753 for boys in 2025, 92 births
Given to boys 92.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 925since 2000
Zealand over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | #1,753 | 92 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,521 | 116 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #1,701 | 99 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #1,379 | 135 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #1,433 | 126 |
| 2020 | — | #3,344 | 33 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | — | #4,610 | 21 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,312 | 34 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,327 | 23 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #4,180 | 23 |
| 2012 | — | #4,533 | 21 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | — | #5,102 | 18 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zealand! It came in at #6,839, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Zealand is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#572 · 1 in 3,309
- Iowa#573 · 1 in 2,811
- Utah#609 · 1 in 3,200
- Indiana#760 · 1 in 4,680
- Alabama#761 · 1 in 4,403
Best ever in a state: #532 in Oregon, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #572 | 6 | 1 in 3,309 |
| Iowa | #573 | 5 | 1 in 2,811 |
| Utah | #609 | 6 | 1 in 3,200 |
| Indiana | #760 | 7 | 1 in 4,680 |
| Alabama | #761 | 5 | 1 in 4,403 |
| Tennessee | #811 | 7 | 1 in 5,119 |
| Georgia | #1,056 | 7 | 1 in 7,195 |
| Texas | #1,193 | 16 | 1 in 10,695 |
| Ohio | #1,233 | 5 | 1 in 10,843 |
| Florida | #1,431 | 7 | 1 in 13,251 |
| California | #1,840 | 8 | 1 in 23,672 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zealand
- 232 spots since 2024 (#1,521 → #1,753)
- 1,591 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #1,753)
- 2,022 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #1,753)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2022 at #1,379 (135 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,933 boys born in 2022 were named Zealand (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,566 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 65.0% of all boys named Zealand (601) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 78 | #5,102 (2009) | #7,940 |
| 2010s | 246 | #3,297 (2014) | #4,252 |
| 2020s | 601 | #1,379 (2022) | #1,855 |
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.
Zealand in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 149,169 of them was named Zealand, which outranked 49.2% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,464Zowie12
- #8,464Zuley12
- #8,464Zully12
- #8,978Zealand11
- #8,978Aahna11
- #8,978Aanika11
- #8,978Aariana11
- #9,562Aafiyah10
- #9,562Aalivia10
- #9,562Aariel10
Tied with 583 names at #8,978; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,885 of them was named Zealand, which outranked 89.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,424Viraj128
- #1,431Finnian127
- #1,431Syed127
- #1,433Zealand126
- #1,433Ender126
- #1,433Jiovanni126
- #1,433Kamron126
- #1,442Brighton125
- #1,442Brysen125
- #1,442Craig125
Tied with 8 names at #1,433; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.