Zero
#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 14 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 41since 2017
Zero over time
Rank among boys' names. Zero 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
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| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zero! It came in at #9,696, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2018–2021, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zero is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Zero in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Zero
- 3,751 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #6,143)
- Debuted 2017
- Peaked 2025 at #6,143 (14 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 were named Zero (0.00%)
- 82.9% of all boys named Zero (34) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 7 | #9,696 (2017) | #9,696 |
| 2020s | 34 | #6,143 (2025) | #9,293 |
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.
Zero in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 122,005 of them was named Zero, which outranked 55.9% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #5,861Zoro15
- #5,861Zyden15
- #5,861Zyrus15
- #6,143Zero14
- #6,143Aarya14
- #6,143Aayden14
- #6,143Abdel14
- #6,446Aadil13
- #6,446Aari13
- #6,446Aarion13
Tied with 302 names at #6,143; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.