Zae
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 27 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 198since 2008
Zae over time
Rank among boys' names. Zae has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,442 | 23 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | — | #5,699 | 15 | |
| 2019 | — | #10,803 | 6 | |
| 2018 | — | #8,819 | 8 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #9,664 | 7 | |
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | — | #6,307 | 13 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
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| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zae! It came in at #12,553, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2008–2009, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Zae is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,923 · 1 in 22,176
Best ever in a state: #1,923 in Texas, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #1,923 | 8 | 1 in 22,176 |
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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 Zae
- 5,994 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #10,695)
- 4,996 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #10,695)
- 1,391 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #10,695)
- Debuted 2008
- Peaked 2023 at #4,002 (27 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 63,355 boys born in 2023 were named Zae (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 54.5% of all boys named Zae (108) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | #12,553 (2008) | #12,553 |
| 2010s | 85 | #6,307 (2014) | #8,920 |
| 2020s | 108 | #4,002 (2023) | #5,850 |
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.
Zae in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 63,355 of them was named Zae, which outranked 71.8% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,883Zakhai28
- #3,883Zaylan28
- #3,883Zaylon28
- #4,002Zae27
- #4,002Adi27
- #4,002Alekzander27
- #4,002Aleph27
- #4,112Adon26
- #4,112Adyan26
- #4,112Amaury26
Tied with 109 names at #4,002; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.