Tzvi
Tzvi was given to 200 boys in 2025, #1,079 among boys’ names; 4,218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,140 Americans named Tzvi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tzvi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tzvi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tzvi is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “gazelle” (literally).
From Hebrew צְבִי (ts’vi, literally “gazelle”).
/(t)sviː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tzvi?
#1,079 among boys’ names, 2025
Tzvi rose from #1,282 in 2015 to #1,079 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.12 per 1,000.
200 babies in 2025, the peak
Tzvi peaked in 2025, when 200 boys were given it, #1,079 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 181 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 200 | #1,079 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 181 | #1,158 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 181 | #1,155 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 180 | #1,154 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,096 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,117 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 170 | #1,150 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 153 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 149 | #1,235 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,365 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 140 | #1,282 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,384 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,425 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 96 | #1,624 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 121 | #1,383 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,339 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,376 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 113 | #1,466 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 101 | #1,560 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,426 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,504 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,457 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,839 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 63 | #1,828 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 69 | #1,694 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,250 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,093 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 51 | #1,926 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,748 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 47 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,131 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 45 | #1,885 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 44 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,166 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 53 | #1,608 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,937 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,141 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,427 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 27 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,899 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,824 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 28 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,163 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,250 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,162 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,209 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,812 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,579 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,331 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tzvi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tzvi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tzvi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tzvi, and how old are they?
4,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,218 Americans ever recorded as Tzvi. The median Tzvi alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,772 people named Tzvi (15 women and girls, 2,757 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,096 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 538 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,080 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tzvi born?
The states with the most babies named Tzvi are New Jersey, New York and Maryland, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey and Maryland are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 91 | #106 | 10.5× |
| New York | 83 | #239 | 8.9× |
| Maryland | 5 | #910 | 0.3× |
Where Tzvi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tzvi is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1961 it was given 10.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tzvi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tzvi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tzvi and names like it
- Compare Tzvi and DovidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTzvi peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tzvi since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Tzvi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Tzvi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tzvi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.