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Zvi

#8,238 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Tzvi

Zvi has been given to 676 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #8,238 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Zvi, 2025

1 in 332,000

Zvi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zvi: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Tzvi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zvi means

Zvi is a alternate transcription of Tzvi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Zvi → Tzvi. The family’s meaning is “gazelle”, recorded in English with the source elements ts'vi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tzvi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 676 boys were recorded with the name Zvi between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,468 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,614 in 2020 to #8,238 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,632 in 2015 to #8,238 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 Zvi?

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 boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,238
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zvi 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zvi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zvis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zvi was born before 1989 — so the typical Zvi is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
16.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
676
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2010s — 16.6% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Zvi 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
−479
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,624
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,394
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 1977 (16)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,468
1967

Where Zvi is used

Across 1910–2025, Zvi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 45,894 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Zvi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zvi around the world

Where Zvi 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Zvi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,238
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,624
Best rank ever
#2,468
1967
Peak year
1977
16 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
676
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Zvi

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

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Sibling names for Zvi

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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