Zale
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #7,257
- Peak · boys
- 1951 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 188since 1951
Zale over time
Rank among boys' names. Zale has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #12,491 | 5 |
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| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
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| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
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| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
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| 1998 | #7,560 | 7 |
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| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zale! It came in at #3,364, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1997, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zale
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 1951 at #3,364 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1952, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 105,542 boys born in 2019 were named Zale (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 156,626 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,364 in 1951, was only 1 in 313,806 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.6% of all boys named Zale (82) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 6 | #3,364 (1951) | #3,364 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 7 | #7,560 (1998) | #7,560 |
| 2000s | 42 | #7,096 (2005) | #9,356 |
| 2010s | 82 | #5,340 (2019) | #8,804 |
| 2020s | 51 | #6,147 (2022) | #8,053 |
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.
Zale in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
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1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 124,715 of them was named Zale, which outranked 57.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,874Zaiyden15
- #5,874Zaryan15
- #5,874Zoravar15
- #6,147Zale14
- #6,147Abdelrahman14
- #6,147Abijah14
- #6,147Aboubacar14
- #6,479Aadam13
- #6,479Aadil13
- #6,479Abdalla13
Tied with 331 names at #6,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.