Zed
#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1894 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 454since 1882
Zed over time
Rank among boys' names. Zed has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | — | |
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| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | — | |
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| 1949 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | — | |
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| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,905 | 7 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #3,545 | 6 |
| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | — | |
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| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,121 | 5 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #857 | 7 |
| 1893 | — | |
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| 1891 | — | |
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| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #921 | 5 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #943 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Zed! It came in at #943, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1893, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zed is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,515 · 1 in 41,303
Best ever in a state: #2,515 in California, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #2,515 | 5 | 1 in 41,303 |
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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 Zed
- 3,006 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #8,910)
- 644 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #8,910)
- 166 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #8,910)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1894 at #857 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1895, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1882–1894
- Highest: 1 in 16,538 boys born in 1894 were named Zed (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 22.0% of all boys named Zed (100) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | #921 (1887) | #932 |
| 1890s | 12 | #857 (1894) | #989 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 25 | #3,177 (1916) | #3,565 |
| 1920s | 24 | #3,385 (1926) | #3,805 |
| 1930s | 19 | #2,905 (1937) | #3,211 |
| 1940s | 16 | #3,298 (1949) | #3,509 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,559 (1958) | #3,559 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 23 | #4,418 (1976) | #5,146 |
| 1980s | 62 | #3,653 (1986) | #4,818 |
| 1990s | 40 | #5,521 (1991) | #7,527 |
| 2000s | 52 | #5,588 (2000) | #9,155 |
| 2010s | 100 | #5,106 (2018) | #8,207 |
| 2020s | 65 | #5,338 (2021) | #7,803 |
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.
Zed in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 100,898 of them was named Zed, which outranked 63.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,918Zaylon19
- #4,918Zyier19
- #4,918Zylan19
- #5,106Zed18
- #5,106Abrahim18
- #5,106Adir18
- #5,106Adlai18
- #5,320Abdulhadi17
- #5,320Achilleus17
- #5,320Adien17
Tied with 213 names at #5,106; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.