Zerick

Last seen for boys in 2016 at #12,185

Peak · boys
1972 · 7 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
161
since 1971

Zerick over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201972peak #3,963, 1972boys
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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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2016#12,1855
2015#10,6446
2014#12,1085
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2012#10,7706
2011#9,6007
2010#6,69812
2009#10,9946
2008#12,5535
2007#7,09411
2006#10,6626
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2002#10,6675
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1977#5,1236
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1971#4,3756
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five boys were named Zerick! It came in at #4,375, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Zerick is popular in 1972

No state had 5 or more boys named Zerick in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zerick
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2016
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 1972 at #3,963 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1973, 1 yr 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 159,890
  • Highest: 1 in 159,890 boys born in 2010 were named Zerick (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 379,548 boys born in 2016 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,963 in 1972, was only 1 in 231,658 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 26.1% of all boys named Zerick (42) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s30#3,963 (1972)#4,806
1980s8#5,615 (1989)#5,615
1990s42#6,843 (1998)#7,867
2000s40#7,094 (2007)#10,102
2010s41#6,698 (2010)#10,334

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.

Zerick in 1972

boys
#3,963
7 births · 1 in 231,658 boys

Top boys' names in 1972

  1. #1Michael71,393
  2. #2Christopher52,172
  3. #3James47,063
  4. #4David46,322
  5. #5John43,158
  6. #6Robert43,013
  7. #7Jason37,423
  8. #8Brian36,306
  9. #9William30,510
  10. #10Matthew22,928
  11. #3,963Zerick7
More about 1972

boys

1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 231,658 of them was named Zerick, which outranked 31.1% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zerick
  1. #3,622Yamil8
  2. #3,622Yvette8
  3. #3,622Zenas8
  4. #3,963Zerick7
  5. #3,963Abayomi7
  6. #3,963Abdon7
  7. #3,963Adolf7
  8. #4,441Abelino6
  9. #4,441Abimael6
  10. #4,441Abrahm6

Tied with 477 names at #3,963; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1971
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,755Demond#3,146 → #391
  2. ↑ 1,286Cade#2,279 → #993
  3. ↑ 905Vidal#1,526 → #621
  4. ↑ 855Damond#1,784 → #929
  5. ↑ 849Kareem#1,254 → #405
Fallers
  1. ↓ 413Rich#914 → #1,327
  2. ↓ 401Monroe#947 → #1,348
  3. ↓ 317Laura#990 → #1,307
  4. ↓ 309Von#976 → #1,285
  5. ↓ 309Westley#998 → #1,307

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

See the top 100 for 1972 →