Ziv

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to boys 98.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2017 · 19 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
252
since 1985

Ziv over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ziv has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201993peak #4,935, 2017boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,60816
2024#15,2935#8,9878
2023#5,92715
2022#7,26211
2021#7,58710
2020#8,0679
2019#8,8898
2018#6,34513
2017#4,93519
2016#9,6647
2015#7,06611
2014#9,6427
2013#7,02611
2012#10,7706
2011#6,57812
2010#8,1399
2009#8,9858
2008#8,3249
2007#9,7887
2006#10,6626
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2003#9,5816
2002#9,3926
2001#10,5565
2000#9,1126
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five boys were named Ziv! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1985–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Ziv is popular in 1993

No state had 5 or more boys named Ziv in 1993, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ziv
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 3,379 spots since 2024 (#8,987#5,608)
  • 2,459 spots since 2020 (#8,067#5,608)
  • 1,458 spots since 2015 (#7,066#5,608)
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 2017 at #4,935 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 2 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 97,419
  • Highest: 1 in 97,419 boys born in 2017 were named Ziv (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 40.9% of all boys named Ziv (103) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#6,523 (1985)#6,523
1990s11#7,638 (1993)#8,775
2000s64#6,520 (2004)#9,213
2010s103#4,935 (2017)#7,905
2020s69#5,608 (2025)#7,240

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.

Ziv in 1993

boys
#7,638
6 births · 1 in 326,888 boys

Top boys' names in 1993

  1. #1Michael49,571
  2. #2Christopher38,237
  3. #3Matthew35,782
  4. #4Joshua33,590
  5. #5Tyler29,800
  6. #6Brandon28,735
  7. #7Daniel28,698
  8. #8Nicholas28,114
  9. #9Jacob27,487
  10. #10Andrew27,326
  11. #7,638Ziv6
More about 1993

boys

1,961,328 boys got a published name in 1993; 1 in 326,888 of them was named Ziv, which outranked 24.9% of the 10,170 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ziv
  1. #6,816Zeno7
  2. #6,816Zeus7
  3. #6,816Zubair7
  4. #7,638Ziv6
  5. #7,638Abayomi6
  6. #7,638Abbott6
  7. #7,638Abdurrahman6
  8. #8,700Abdon5
  9. #8,700Abdoulaye5
  10. #8,700Abdullahi5

Tied with 1,061 names at #7,638; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1992
Risers
  1. 5,880Savon#6,670#790
  2. 2,006Jordy#2,834#828
  3. 662Austyn#1,598#936
  4. 471Devaughn#1,395#924
  5. 454Mikal#1,294#840
Fallers
  1. 329Channing#887#1,216
  2. 307Garth#658#965
  3. 252Earnest#911#1,163
  4. 241Armand#987#1,228
  5. 240Spenser#831#1,071

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

See the top 100 for 1993