Zef
Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 44since 1973
Zef over time
Rank among boys' names. Zef has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
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| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
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| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
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| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
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| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
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| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zef! It came in at #4,505, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1999, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zef is popular in 1973
No state had 5 or more boys named Zef in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zef
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1973 at #4,505 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 259,763 boys born in 1973 were named Zef (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 342,115 boys born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 27.3% of all boys named Zef (12) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #4,505 (1973) | #4,505 |
| 1980s | 10 | #6,238 (1983) | #6,480 |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,800 (1994) | #8,800 |
| 2000s | 6 | #9,112 (2000) | #9,112 |
| 2010s | 12 | #10,728 (2013) | #10,768 |
| 2020s | 5 | #12,239 (2023) | #12,239 |
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.
Zef in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 259,763 of them was named Zef, which outranked 23.3% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,054Zakary7
- #4,054Zalmen7
- #4,054Zubin7
- #4,505Zef6
- #4,505Abdu6
- #4,505Abelino6
- #4,505Able6
- #5,101Abdalla5
- #5,101Abiel5
- #5,101Abrahm5
Tied with 595 names at #4,505; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.