Zarek

#1,852 for boys in 2025, 85 births

Peak · boys
2025 · 85 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,113
since 1989

Zarek over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202005boysat 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
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rankbirths
2025#1,85285
2024#3,98627
2023#6,22014
2022#7,76810
2021#4,62821
2020#4,27523
2019#4,48022
2018#4,22624
2017#3,99326
2016#4,47022
2015#3,43132
2014#2,49250
2013#2,95538
2012#2,59447
2011#2,69944
2010#2,73044
2009#2,75344
2008#2,94640
2007#2,81142
2006#2,93238
2005#2,61442
2004#2,78837
2003#3,04431
2002#2,50439
2001#2,61836
2000#2,25643
1999#1,87952
1998#2,85128
1997#2,90326
1996#4,18515
1995#3,55918
1994#3,75117
1993#4,44713
1992#5,23610
1991#8,2365
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First appearance
1989

The first year at least five boys were named Zarek! It came in at #5,615, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zarek
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 2,134 spots since 2024 (#3,986#1,852)
  • 2,423 spots since 2020 (#4,275#1,852)
  • 1,579 spots since 2015 (#3,431#1,852)
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1989
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,852 (85 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 20,095
  • Highest: 1 in 20,095 boys born in 2025 were named Zarek (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 35.2% of all boys named Zarek (392) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s8#5,615 (1989)#5,615
1990s184#1,879 (1999)#4,116
2000s392#2,256 (2000)#2,727
2010s349#2,492 (2014)#3,407
2020s180#1,852 (2025)#4,788

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.

Zarek in 2005

boys
#2,614
42 births · 1 in 47,555 boys

Top boys' names in 2005

  1. #1Jacob25,851
  2. #2Michael23,828
  3. #3Joshua23,261
  4. #4Matthew21,483
  5. #5Ethan21,318
  6. #6Andrew20,742
  7. #7Daniel20,236
  8. #8Anthony19,387
  9. #9Joseph19,241
  10. #10Christopher19,174
  11. #2,614Zarek42
More about 2005

boys

1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 47,555 of them was named Zarek, which outranked 80.4% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zarek
  1. #2,567Zak43
  2. #2,567Zakai43
  3. #2,567Zeus43
  4. #2,614Zarek42
  5. #2,614Abhiram42
  6. #2,614Alistair42
  7. #2,614Amaury42
  8. #2,653Abe41
  9. #2,653Abimael41
  10. #2,653Adel41

Tied with 38 names at #2,614; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2004
Risers
  1. 3,722Talan#4,264#542
  2. 1,048Carmine#1,934#886
  3. 727Leland#1,335#608
  4. 528Amare#1,159#631
  5. 525Braylen#1,359#834
Fallers
  1. 817Madison#857#1,674
  2. 783Andon#865#1,648
  3. 406Kanye#486#892
  4. 379Jakobe#846#1,225
  5. 359Koda#930#1,289

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

See the top 100 for 2005