Ze
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ze has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Ze, 2023
1 in 663,000
Ze over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ze?
Ze had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ze sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ze. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ze was born before 2012 — so the typical Ze is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 39
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (12).
Is Ze rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1999 (7)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Ze around the world
Where Ze ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2005–2018#4,749in 2018
- Ireland2007–2007#629in 2007
- France2000–2000#4,211in 2000
- Canada1994–2021#2,792in 2021
- South Australia2001–2001#399in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ze by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ze
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ze
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.