Zeus

#1,347 for boys in 2025, 140 births

Peak · boys
2024 · 205 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,696
since 1973

Zeus over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201989boysat peak
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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#1,347140
2024#1,062205
2023#1,156180
2022#1,131186
2021#1,152174
2020#1,200159
2019#1,116176
2018#1,276144
2017#1,207152
2016#1,382128
2015#1,453116
2014#1,576100
2013#1,72585
2012#1,79982
2011#1,84976
2010#2,01068
2009#2,40153
2008#2,58348
2007#2,97439
2006#3,02436
2005#2,56743
2004#3,86023
2003#3,28028
2002#3,02230
2001#2,86432
2000#2,86431
1999#3,27924
1998#3,84918
1997#4,66813
1996#5,9829
1995#7,7926
1994#6,3728
1993#6,8167
1992#4,56412
1991—
1990#8,1175
1989#5,6158
1988#6,4266
1987#6,9515
1986#6,7215
1985#6,5235
1984#4,9737
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1982#5,0037
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1977#5,8455
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five boys were named Zeus! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1973–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Zeus is popular in 1989

No state had 5 or more boys named Zeus in 1989, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zeus
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 285 spots since 2024 (#1,062 → #1,347)
  • 147 spots since 2020 (#1,200 → #1,347)
  • 106 spots since 2015 (#1,453 → #1,347)
Rise & fade · boys
51 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2024 at #1,062 (205 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 8,404
  • Highest: 1 in 8,404 boys born in 2024 were named Zeus (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 12,201 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 41.8% of all boys named Zeus (1,127) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s17#4,842 (1979)#5,263
1980s43#4,973 (1984)#6,030
1990s102#3,279 (1999)#5,715
2000s363#2,401 (2009)#2,944
2010s1,127#1,116 (2019)#1,539
2020s1,044#1,062 (2024)#1,175

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.

Zeus in 1989

boys
#5,615
8 births · 1 in 250,116 boys

Top boys' names in 1989

  1. #1Michael65,415
  2. #2Christopher53,186
  3. #3Matthew45,375
  4. #4Joshua44,100
  5. #5David35,225
  6. #6Daniel35,007
  7. #7Andrew34,817
  8. #8Justin32,852
  9. #9James32,720
  10. #10Robert30,072
  11. #5,615Zeus8
More about 1989

boys

2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 250,116 of them was named Zeus, which outranked 39.2% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zeus
  1. #5,165Zakkery9
  2. #5,165Zayd9
  3. #5,165Zion9
  4. #5,615Zeus8
  5. #5,615Abdel8
  6. #5,615Abdias8
  7. #5,615Abed8
  8. #6,229Aarin7
  9. #6,229Aaryn7
  10. #6,229Abby7

Tied with 613 names at #5,615; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1988
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,314Kiara#7,270 → #956
  2. ↑ 5,870Alexande#6,426 → #556
  3. ↑ 1,111Kwame#1,768 → #657
  4. ↑ 766Kadeem#1,467 → #701
  5. ↑ 684Hakeem#1,270 → #586
Fallers
  1. ↓ 839Long#819 → #1,658
  2. ↓ 337Darell#981 → #1,318
  3. ↓ 294Whitney#890 → #1,184
  4. ↓ 269Trevin#840 → #1,109
  5. ↓ 252Curt#850 → #1,102

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

See the top 100 for 1989 →