Zeek

#5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births

Peak · boys
2017 · 27 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
301
since 1991

Zeek over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zeek has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202021peak #3,889, 2017boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#5,20818
2024#5,65916
2023#8,2559
2022#4,30324
2021#4,93619
2020#5,69915
2019#4,11425
2018#6,03614
2017#3,88927
2016#4,77620
2015#4,71120
2014#5,25217
2013#4,98118
2012#7,05011
2011#7,00911
2010#8,1399
2009#9,8647
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five boys were named Zeek! It came in at #8,236, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1991–2004, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Zeek is popular in 2021

No state had 5 or more boys named Zeek in 2021, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zeek
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 451 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #5,208)
  • 491 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #5,208)
  • 497 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #5,208)
Rise & fade · boys
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2017 at #3,889 (27 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 68,554
  • Highest: 1 in 68,554 boys born in 2017 were named Zeek (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 57.1% of all boys named Zeek (172) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s5#8,236 (1991)#8,236
2000s23#7,640 (2005)#9,030
2010s172#3,889 (2017)#5,596
2020s101#4,303 (2022)#5,677

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.

Zeek in 2021

boys
#4,936
19 births · 1 in 92,078 boys

Top boys' names in 2021

  1. #1Liam20,424
  2. #2Noah18,919
  3. #3Oliver14,713
  4. #4Elijah12,845
  5. #5James12,474
  6. #6William12,170
  7. #7Benjamin11,895
  8. #8Lucas11,584
  9. #9Henry11,370
  10. #10Theodore9,600
  11. #4,936Zeek19
More about 2021

boys

1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 92,078 of them was named Zeek, which outranked 65.0% 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).

Ranked beside Zeek
  1. #4,780Yishai20
  2. #4,780Zoe20
  3. #4,780Zyere20
  4. #4,936Zeek19
  5. #4,936Adley19
  6. #4,936Alanzo19
  7. #4,936Alegend19
  8. #5,110Aaryn18
  9. #5,110Abishai18
  10. #5,110Acesyn18

Tied with 173 names at #4,936; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2020
Risers
  1. ↑ 536Amiri#1,295 → #759
  2. ↑ 438Eliam#1,177 → #739
  3. ↑ 343Colter#972 → #629
  4. ↑ 333Ozzy#1,046 → #713
  5. ↑ 299Loyal#1,053 → #754
Fallers
  1. ↓ 352Jaxtyn#585 → #937
  2. ↓ 259Karsyn#698 → #957
  3. ↓ 231Xzavier#976 → #1,207
  4. ↓ 208Tristen#846 → #1,054
  5. ↓ 208Willie#992 → #1,200

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2021 →