Zeus
#1,347 for boys in 2025, 140 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 205 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,696since 1973
Zeus over time
Rank among boys' names. Zeus 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,347 | 140 |
| 2024 | #1,062 | 205 |
| 2023 | #1,156 | 180 |
| 2022 | #1,131 | 186 |
| 2021 | #1,152 | 174 |
| 2020 | #1,200 | 159 |
| 2019 | #1,116 | 176 |
| 2018 | #1,276 | 144 |
| 2017 | #1,207 | 152 |
| 2016 | #1,382 | 128 |
| 2015 | #1,453 | 116 |
| 2014 | #1,576 | 100 |
| 2013 | #1,725 | 85 |
| 2012 | #1,799 | 82 |
| 2011 | #1,849 | 76 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 2009 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 2006 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | #2,567 | 43 |
| 2004 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #3,022 | 30 |
| 2001 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #2,864 | 31 |
| 1999 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
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| 1990 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
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| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
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| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1973 | #5,101 | 5 |
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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 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#557 · 1 in 3,378
- Maryland#579 · 1 in 2,916
- California#717 · 1 in 4,872
- New Jersey#816 · 1 in 5,704
- Arizona#829 · 1 in 5,521
Best ever in a state: #392 in Nevada, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #557 | 8 | 1 in 3,378 |
| Maryland | #579 | 8 | 1 in 2,916 |
| California | #717 | 37 | 1 in 4,872 |
| New Jersey | #816 | 7 | 1 in 5,704 |
| Arizona | #829 | 6 | 1 in 5,521 |
| Texas | #881 | 28 | 1 in 6,386 |
| New York | #882 | 15 | 1 in 5,765 |
| Washington | #885 | 6 | 1 in 5,419 |
| Illinois | #935 | 8 | 1 in 6,275 |
| Pennsylvania | #997 | 7 | 1 in 7,464 |
| Florida | #1,000 | 13 | 1 in 7,357 |
| Tennessee | #1,017 | 5 | 1 in 7,253 |
| Michigan | #1,095 | 5 | 1 in 7,995 |
| Georgia | #1,403 | 5 | 1 in 10,223 |
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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 Zeus
- 285 spots since 2024 (#1,062 → #1,347)
- 147 spots since 2020 (#1,200 → #1,347)
- 106 spots since 2015 (#1,453 → #1,347)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2024 at #1,062 (205 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 41.8% of all boys named Zeus (1,127) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #4,842 (1979) | #5,263 |
| 1980s | 43 | #4,973 (1984) | #6,030 |
| 1990s | 102 | #3,279 (1999) | #5,715 |
| 2000s | 363 | #2,401 (2009) | #2,944 |
| 2010s | 1,127 | #1,116 (2019) | #1,539 |
| 2020s | 1,044 | #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 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 8,404 of them was named Zeus, which outranked 92.6% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,057Howard207
- #1,060Caius206
- #1,060Syncere206
- #1,062Zeus205
- #1,062Agastya205
- #1,062Isai205
- #1,062Ivaan205
- #1,068Aariv204
- #1,068Jadiel204
- #1,068Jethro204
Tied with 5 names at #1,062; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.