Zealand
#1,770 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zealand has been given to 997 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #1,770 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 135 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Zealand, 2025
1 in 36,000
Zealand 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Zealand over time
In 2025, Zealand 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 Zealand?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 36,000
- 92 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 18,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,770
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 24,978 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zealand 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 24,978 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zealand. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zealands were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zealand was born before 2021 — so the typical Zealand is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 65.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 925
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 65.0% of all recorded uses (601).
Is Zealand 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
- −241
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,645
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,108
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.29×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 68.1%
- Peak was 2022 (135)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.5% average annual change
Spellings of Zealand
Zealand is not the most common spelling — Leland is, with 91.4% against Zealand's 1.5%.
Where Zealand is used
Across 2016–2025, Zealand was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 33,517 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
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.
Zealand around the world
Where Zealand 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 & Wales2021–2025#2,952in 2025
- Canada2020–2024#1,459in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zealand by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zealand
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zealand
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.