Zeke
#800 for boys in 2025, 311 births
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 459 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,371since 1880
Zeke over time
Rank among boys' names. Zeke has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #800 | 311 |
| 2024 | #726 | 363 |
| 2023 | #643 | 429 |
| 2022 | #610 | 459 |
| 2021 | #618 | 450 |
| 2020 | #675 | 384 |
| 2019 | #654 | 407 |
| 2018 | #642 | 405 |
| 2017 | #616 | 425 |
| 2016 | #658 | 397 |
| 2015 | #701 | 359 |
| 2014 | #736 | 325 |
| 2013 | #849 | 251 |
| 2012 | #863 | 244 |
| 2011 | #965 | 205 |
| 2010 | #1,047 | 184 |
| 2009 | #1,169 | 155 |
| 2008 | #1,374 | 124 |
| 2007 | #1,442 | 112 |
| 2006 | #1,479 | 103 |
| 2005 | #1,272 | 122 |
| 2004 | #1,446 | 96 |
| 2003 | #1,335 | 103 |
| 2002 | #1,258 | 108 |
| 2001 | #1,379 | 92 |
| 2000 | #1,408 | 88 |
| 1999 | #1,824 | 54 |
| 1998 | #1,957 | 49 |
| 1997 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #1,671 | 57 |
| 1995 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #1,643 | 55 |
| 1993 | #2,050 | 39 |
| 1992 | #2,002 | 39 |
| 1991 | #1,677 | 49 |
| 1990 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #1,411 | 60 |
| 1988 | #1,645 | 43 |
| 1987 | #2,559 | 21 |
| 1986 | #2,096 | 27 |
| 1985 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,036 | 26 |
| 1983 | #1,905 | 28 |
| 1982 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #1,661 | 35 |
| 1980 | #1,655 | 35 |
| 1979 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #1,452 | 41 |
| 1977 | #1,490 | 38 |
| 1976 | #1,711 | 30 |
| 1975 | #1,407 | 39 |
| 1974 | #1,659 | 29 |
| 1973 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #1,771 | 25 |
| 1971 | #1,745 | 26 |
| 1970 | #1,889 | 22 |
| 1969 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #2,470 | 11 |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #2,366 | 12 |
| 1964 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1963 | #2,300 | 13 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,538 | 11 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #2,177 | 14 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #2,798 | 9 |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | #2,391 | 11 |
| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #2,337 | 11 |
| 1948 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #2,169 | 13 |
| 1946 | #2,919 | 7 |
| 1945 | #2,131 | 11 |
| 1944 | #1,574 | 19 |
| 1943 | #2,405 | 10 |
| 1942 | #2,940 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
| 1940 | #2,671 | 8 |
| 1939 | #1,879 | 14 |
| 1938 | #2,868 | 7 |
| 1937 | #2,197 | 11 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | #3,151 | 8 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #3,155 | 8 |
| 1924 | #3,023 | 9 |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #2,630 | 11 |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #2,877 | 9 |
| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
| 1916 | #2,926 | 8 |
| 1915 | #2,310 | 11 |
| 1914 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | #2,092 | 8 |
| 1912 | #2,269 | 6 |
| 1911 | #1,190 | 9 |
| 1910 | #1,193 | 8 |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,345 | 5 |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,091 | 6 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,013 | 6 |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #804 | 8 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #872 | 7 |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #974 | 5 |
| 1888 | #917 | 6 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #799 | 6 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #809 | 6 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Zeke was already there! It came in at #809, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1882, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Zeke is popular in 1889
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Zeke
- 74 spots since 2024 (#726 → #800)
- 125 spots since 2020 (#675 → #800)
- 99 spots since 2015 (#701 → #800)
- Biggest jump: 113 spots in 2014 (#849 → #736)
- Biggest drop: 83 spots in 2024 (#643 → #726)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 2022 at #610 (459 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,804 boys born in 2022 were named Zeke (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,492 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 38.3% of all boys named Zeke (3,202) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | #799 (1883) | #875 |
| 1890s | 15 | #804 (1898) | #838 |
| 1900s | 17 | #1,013 (1902) | #1,150 |
| 1910s | 83 | #1,190 (1911) | #2,434 |
| 1920s | 76 | #2,630 (1922) | #3,358 |
| 1930s | 76 | #1,879 (1939) | #2,795 |
| 1940s | 99 | #1,574 (1944) | #2,529 |
| 1950s | 78 | #2,177 (1958) | #2,925 |
| 1960s | 102 | #2,205 (1964) | #2,525 |
| 1970s | 309 | #1,407 (1975) | #1,664 |
| 1980s | 319 | #1,411 (1989) | #1,974 |
| 1990s | 473 | #1,587 (1990) | #1,868 |
| 2000s | 1,103 | #1,169 (2009) | #1,356 |
| 2010s | 3,202 | #616 (2017) | #773 |
| 2020s | 2,396 | #610 (2022) | #679 |
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.
Zeke in 1889
Top boys' names in 1889
More about 1889
boys
110,580 boys got a published name in 1889; 1 in 22,116 of them was named Zeke, which outranked 12.3% of the 1,111 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 137 names at #974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.