Zea
#10,091 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zea has been given to 302 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #10,091 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Zea, 2025
1 in 332,000
Zea 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zea?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,091
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zea sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zeas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zea was born before 2011 — so the typical Zea is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 302
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (124).
Is Zea 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
- −1,660
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +977
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +756
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.5%
- Peak was 2013 (23)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.0% average annual change
Zea around the world
Where Zea 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 & Wales1997–2023#4,710in 2023
- France1902–2025#6,168in 2025
- Canada2007–2024#3,027in 2024
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zea by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zea
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zea
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.