Zeek

#5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births

Peak · boys
2017 · 27 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
301
since 1991

Zeek over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Zeek has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202017peak #3,889, 2017boys
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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#5,20818
2024#5,65916
2023#8,2559
2022#4,30324
2021#4,93619
2020#5,69915
2019#4,11425
2018#6,03614
2017#3,88927
2016#4,77620
2015#4,71120
2014#5,25217
2013#4,98118
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five boys were named Zeek! It came in at #8,236, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1991–2004, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zeek
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 451 spots since 2024 (#5,659#5,208)
  • 491 spots since 2020 (#5,699#5,208)
  • 497 spots since 2015 (#4,711#5,208)
Rise & fade · boys
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2017 at #3,889 (27 births)
  • Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
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 68,554
  • Highest: 1 in 68,554 boys born in 2017 were named Zeek (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 57.1% of all boys named Zeek (172) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s5#8,236 (1991)#8,236
2000s23#7,640 (2005)#9,030
2010s172#3,889 (2017)#5,596
2020s101#4,303 (2022)#5,677

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.

Zeek in 2017

boys
#3,889
27 births · 1 in 68,554 boys

Top boys' names in 2017

  1. #1Liam18,874
  2. #2Noah18,507
  3. #3William15,046
  4. #4James14,362
  5. #5Logan14,061
  6. #6Benjamin13,858
  7. #7Mason13,602
  8. #8Elijah13,449
  9. #9Jacob13,269
  10. #10Oliver13,224
  11. #3,889Zeek27
More about 2017

boys

1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 68,554 of them was named Zeek, which outranked 72.7% 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).

Ranked beside Zeek
  1. #3,781Zakir28
  2. #3,781Zamar28
  3. #3,781Zavien28
  4. #3,889Zeek27
  5. #3,889Aaditya27
  6. #3,889Abdurrahman27
  7. #3,889Adian27
  8. #3,993Abrahim26
  9. #3,993Adael26
  10. #3,993Anias26

Tied with 103 names at #3,889; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2016
Risers
  1. 497Wells#1,413#916
  2. 419Kairo#1,221#802
  3. 339Caspian#1,199#860
  4. 313Colson#1,049#736
  5. 311Kace#1,183#872
Fallers
  1. 415Riaan#861#1,276
  2. 292Chevy#980#1,272
  3. 245Kylo#904#1,149
  4. 226Braeden#993#1,219
  5. 194Kamdyn#809#1,003

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

See the top 100 for 2017