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Zeke

#803 in 2025Boys' name

God strengthens, through Ezekiel

Zeke has been given to 8,371 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #803 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 459 recorded.

Babies named Zeke, 2025

1 in 10,700

Zeke over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeke: meaning, origin, and history

God strengthens, through Ezekiel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zeke means

Zeke belongs to the name family reached through Zeke → Ezekiel. Its meaning is “God strengthens”.

Origin, language, and formation

Zeke is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ezekiel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Zeke is pronounced /ziːk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,371 boys were recorded with the name Zeke between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 459 in 2022; its best national rank was #610 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #675 in 2020 to #803 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #702 in 2015 to #803 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zeke?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,700
311 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,490
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#803
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,390 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zeke sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,390 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeke. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zekes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeke was born before 2015 — so the typical Zeke is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,982
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (3,202).

Is Zeke 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
−76
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−128
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−101
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.87×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.8%
Peak was 2022 (459)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#610
2022

Spellings of Zeke

Zeke is not the most common spelling — Luke is, with 26.0% against Zeke's 0.67%.

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 Zeke is used

Across 2016–2025, Zeke was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,220 boys, against 1 in 4,180 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 25,000).

482 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,220
  2. 2Utah1 in 1,266
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 1,961
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 2,439
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 2,500
  6. 6Iowa1 in 2,703
  7. 7Indiana1 in 2,703
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 2,778

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.

Geographically, Zeke is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 59% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Zeke around the world

Where Zeke 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #953
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2023
    #728
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2018–2018
    #416
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2022–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #594
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1972–2013
    #317
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Zeke

People whose public names include Zeke, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zeke by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#803
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 128
Best rank ever
#610
2022
Peak year
2022
459 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,371
Count in 2025
311

Names similar to Zeke

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ZekielZekiTyrekeZekiahZekaiDekeZekhiZekariDerekeMalekeZekaniZekZekialZekariahTylekeMilekeZekariasZekharyahZekeriahDominekeAdeleke

Names with a curve like Zeke

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zeke, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LennonAbdielCassiusLangstonGreyRayanKyreeEdenZaidNikolaiSantanaYusuf

Sibling names for Zeke

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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