Zeal
#3,751 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zeal has been given to 192 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #3,751 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 30 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Zeal, 2025
1 in 111,000
Zeal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Zeal over time
In 2025, Zeal went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Zeal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 56,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,751
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zeal 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zeals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeal was born before 2022 — so the typical Zeal is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 62.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 175
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 62.3% of all recorded uses (109).
Is Zeal 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
- +564
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,300
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (30)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.6% average annual change
Spellings of Zeal
Zeal is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 32.6% against Zeal's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Zeal is used
Across 1910–2025, Zeal was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zeal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zeal around the world
Where Zeal 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.
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zeal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zeal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zeal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.