Zeth
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 59 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,202since 1977
Zeth over time
Rank among boys' names. Zeth has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2010 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #3,551 | 30 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #3,379 | 32 |
| 2006 | #2,310 | 54 |
| 2005 | #2,297 | 51 |
| 2004 | #2,452 | 45 |
| 2003 | #2,780 | 35 |
| 2002 | #2,295 | 45 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #2,015 | 50 |
| 1999 | #1,733 | 59 |
| 1998 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1993 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #2,909 | 23 |
| 1991 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #2,432 | 28 |
| 1989 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #3,079 | 17 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #3,131 | 15 |
| 1985 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zeth! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1978, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Zeth is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,677 · 1 in 22,205
- California#2,239 · 1 in 38,415
Best ever in a state: #627 in Oklahoma, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,677 | 8 | 1 in 22,205 |
| California | #2,239 | 6 | 1 in 38,415 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Zeth
- 1,070 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #12,008)
- 3,941 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #12,008)
- 8,026 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1999 at #1,733 (59 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,545 boys born in 1999 were named Zeth (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.4% of all boys named Zeth (438) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 21 | #4,068 (1979) | #4,822 |
| 1980s | 154 | #2,068 (1989) | #3,228 |
| 1990s | 320 | #1,733 (1999) | #2,524 |
| 2000s | 438 | #2,015 (2000) | #2,581 |
| 2010s | 217 | #3,377 (2010) | #4,896 |
| 2020s | 52 | #7,262 (2022) | #8,859 |
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.
Zeth in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 61,192 of them was named Zeth, which outranked 75.8% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,371Uzair32
- #3,371Weslee32
- #3,371Xadrian32
- #3,450Zeth31
- #3,450Abdoulaye31
- #3,450Agastya31
- #3,450Ahron31
- #3,530Adien30
- #3,530Alias30
- #3,530Amiel30
Tied with 79 names at #3,450; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.