Zealand
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #1,753 for boys in 2025, 92 births
Given to boys 92.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 135 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 925since 2000
Zealand over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,753 | 92 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,521 | 116 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #1,701 | 99 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #1,379 | 135 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #1,433 | 126 |
| 2020 | — | #3,344 | 33 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #3,571 | 31 |
| 2018 | — | #4,610 | 21 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,312 | 34 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,327 | 23 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #3,775 | 28 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #4,180 | 23 |
| 2012 | — | #4,533 | 21 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | — | #5,102 | 18 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,767 | 15 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
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| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
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| 2000 | — | #6,839 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zealand! It came in at #6,839, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zealand
- 232 spots since 2024 (#1,521 → #1,753)
- 1,591 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #1,753)
- 2,022 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #1,753)
- Debuted 2000
- Peaked 2022 at #1,379 (135 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,933 boys born in 2022 were named Zealand (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 18,566 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 65.0% of all boys named Zealand (601) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 78 | #5,102 (2009) | #7,940 |
| 2010s | 246 | #3,297 (2014) | #4,252 |
| 2020s | 601 | #1,379 (2022) | #1,855 |
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.
Zealand in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 54,440 of them was named Zealand, which outranked 76.8% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,249Vihan35
- #3,249Vishnu35
- #3,249Yan35
- #3,312Zealand34
- #3,312Aasir34
- #3,312Able34
- #3,312Agam34
- #3,378Aaric33
- #3,378Abriel33
- #3,378Adonnis33
Tied with 65 names at #3,312; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.