Zeth

#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births

Peak · boys
1999 · 59 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,202
since 1977

Zeth over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zeth has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202018peak #1,733, 1999boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#12,0085
2024#10,9386
2023#7,28911
2022#7,26211
2021#7,58710
2020#8,0679
2019#9,7567
2018#5,32017
2017#4,59421
2016#4,77620
2015#3,98226
2014#4,53821
2013#5,17117
2012#3,45031
2011#3,99425
2010#3,37732
2009#3,55130
2008#2,58348
2007#3,37932
2006#2,31054
2005#2,29751
2004#2,45245
2003#2,78035
2002#2,29545
2001#2,15148
2000#2,01550
1999#1,73359
1998#3,59720
1997#2,31136
1996#2,44132
1995#2,25335
1994#2,44431
1993#2,29533
1992#2,90923
1991#2,82823
1990#2,43228
1989#2,06834
1988#3,07917
1987#3,33914
1986#3,13115
1985#3,21614
1984#3,92510
1983#2,78716
1982#3,48212
1981#3,41212
1980#3,83810
1979#4,0689
1978#4,5547
1977#5,8455
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First appearance
1977

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 2018

No state had 5 or more boys named Zeth in 2018, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zeth
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 1999 at #1,733 (59 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 12 yrs 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 32,545
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 36.4% of all boys named Zeth (438) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s21#4,068 (1979)#4,822
1980s154#2,068 (1989)#3,228
1990s320#1,733 (1999)#2,524
2000s438#2,015 (2000)#2,581
2010s217#3,377 (2010)#4,896
2020s52#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 2018

boys
#5,320
17 births · 1 in 106,833 boys

Top boys' names in 2018

  1. #1Liam19,977
  2. #2Noah18,441
  3. #3William14,646
  4. #4James13,650
  5. #5Oliver13,500
  6. #6Benjamin13,488
  7. #7Elijah13,020
  8. #8Lucas12,665
  9. #9Mason12,526
  10. #10Logan12,447
  11. #5,320Zeth17
More about 2018

boys

1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 106,833 of them was named Zeth, which outranked 62.3% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zeth
  1. #5,106Zed18
  2. #5,106Zekiah18
  3. #5,106Zlatan18
  4. #5,320Zeth17
  5. #5,320Abdulhadi17
  6. #5,320Achilleus17
  7. #5,320Adien17
  8. #5,540Aadhi16
  9. #5,540Aanav16
  10. #5,540Aarnav16

Tied with 219 names at #5,320; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. ↑ 594Genesis#1,575 → #981
  2. ↑ 436Baker#1,149 → #713
  3. ↑ 430Saint#1,287 → #857
  4. ↑ 319Kairo#802 → #483
  5. ↑ 307Watson#1,020 → #713
Fallers
  1. ↓ 235Aaden#893 → #1,128
  2. ↓ 224Dilan#917 → #1,141
  3. ↓ 201Craig#980 → #1,181
  4. ↓ 177Mike#951 → #1,128
  5. ↓ 172Harper#798 → #970

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

See the top 100 for 2018 →