Zev
#864 for boys in 2025, 277 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 277 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,153since 1951
Zev over time
Rank among boys' names. Zev has never cracked the top 800 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 | #864 | 277 |
| 2024 | #899 | 263 |
| 2023 | #878 | 267 |
| 2022 | #950 | 239 |
| 2021 | #977 | 227 |
| 2020 | #899 | 250 |
| 2019 | #1,052 | 195 |
| 2018 | #964 | 215 |
| 2017 | #1,042 | 193 |
| 2016 | #1,180 | 161 |
| 2015 | #1,162 | 160 |
| 2014 | #1,201 | 153 |
| 2013 | #1,135 | 160 |
| 2012 | #1,195 | 150 |
| 2011 | #1,371 | 122 |
| 2010 | #1,292 | 133 |
| 2009 | #1,453 | 115 |
| 2008 | #1,428 | 117 |
| 2007 | #1,380 | 119 |
| 2006 | #1,387 | 115 |
| 2005 | #1,711 | 78 |
| 2004 | #1,720 | 74 |
| 2003 | #1,656 | 75 |
| 2002 | #1,660 | 71 |
| 2001 | #1,600 | 74 |
| 2000 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #1,763 | 57 |
| 1998 | #1,768 | 57 |
| 1997 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #2,017 | 43 |
| 1995 | #1,782 | 49 |
| 1994 | #2,181 | 37 |
| 1993 | #2,050 | 39 |
| 1992 | #1,820 | 45 |
| 1991 | #2,095 | 35 |
| 1990 | #1,870 | 41 |
| 1989 | #2,106 | 33 |
| 1988 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | #2,169 | 27 |
| 1986 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1982 | #2,111 | 25 |
| 1981 | #2,270 | 22 |
| 1980 | #2,003 | 27 |
| 1979 | #2,104 | 24 |
| 1978 | #1,870 | 27 |
| 1977 | #2,556 | 17 |
| 1976 | #1,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #1,948 | 24 |
| 1974 | #1,983 | 22 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #1,989 | 20 |
| 1969 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1964 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #2,539 | 11 |
| 1962 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #2,706 | 10 |
| 1960 | #2,042 | 16 |
| 1959 | #1,759 | 21 |
| 1958 | #2,026 | 16 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,316 | 12 |
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| 1952 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zev! It came in at #3,364, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Zev is popular in 1971
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#866 · 1 in 19,580
Best ever in a state: #171 in New York, 2025.
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| New York | #866 | 7 | 1 in 19,580 |
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See more about Zev
- 35 spots since 2024 (#899 → #864)
- 35 spots since 2020 (#899 → #864)
- 298 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #864)
- Biggest jump: 153 spots in 2020 (#1,052 → #899)
- Biggest drop: 88 spots in 2019 (#964 → #1,052)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2025 at #864 (277 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2020–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,166 boys born in 2025 were named Zev (0.02%)
- 31.9% of all boys named Zev (1,642) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 90 | #1,759 (1959) | #2,586 |
| 1960s | 105 | #2,042 (1960) | #2,714 |
| 1970s | 190 | #1,870 (1978) | #2,389 |
| 1980s | 261 | #1,989 (1988) | #2,155 |
| 1990s | 453 | #1,763 (1999) | #1,921 |
| 2000s | 889 | #1,380 (2007) | #1,599 |
| 2010s | 1,642 | #964 (2018) | #1,159 |
| 2020s | 1,523 | #864 (2025) | #911 |
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.
Zev in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 221,056 of them was named Zev, which outranked 35.3% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).