Zekai
#5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 21 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 140since 2012
Zekai over time
Rank among boys' names. Zekai 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 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #9,568 | 7 |
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| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #12,274 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zekai! It came in at #12,274, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2014, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Zekai is popular in 2023
No state had 5 or more boys named Zekai in 2023, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zekai
- 1,160 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #5,861)
- 2,878 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #5,861)
- 3,707 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #5,861)
- Debuted 2012
- Peaked 2024 at #4,701 (21 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 82,042 boys born in 2024 were named Zekai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 66.4% of all boys named Zekai (93) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 47 | #8,140 (2017) | #10,250 |
| 2020s | 93 | #4,701 (2024) | #6,026 |
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.
Zekai in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 90,030 of them was named Zekai, which outranked 64.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #5,075Zekai19
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Tied with 179 names at #5,075; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.