Zeph
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 112since 1992
Zeph over time
Rank among boys' names. Zeph has never cracked the top 6,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #9,823 | 7 |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
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| 2011 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #9,019 | 8 |
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| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
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| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zeph! It came in at #8,435, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1992–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zeph is popular in 2001
No state had 5 or more boys named Zeph in 2001, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zeph
- 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #12,008)
- 14 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2001 at #6,013 (11 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 176,626 boys born in 2001 were named Zeph (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.0% of all boys named Zeph (37) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 10 | #8,435 (1992) | #8,568 |
| 2000s | 37 | #6,013 (2001) | #9,004 |
| 2010s | 28 | #8,146 (2016) | #9,994 |
| 2020s | 37 | #9,714 (2021) | #10,711 |
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.
Zeph in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 176,626 of them was named Zeph, which outranked 51.1% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,667Zuhair12
- #5,667Zuhayr12
- #5,667Zyshonne12
- #6,013Zeph11
- #6,013Abdifatah11
- #6,013Able11
- #6,013Abubakr11
- #6,445Aarin10
- #6,445Abad10
- #6,445Abdi10
Tied with 431 names at #6,013; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.