Zarek
Zarek was given to 85 boys in 2025, #1,866 among boys’ names; 1,113 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Zarek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zarek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zarek?
#1,866 among boys’ names, 2025
Zarek rose from #3,510 in 2015 to #1,866 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.7 to 49.8 per million.
85 babies in 2025, the peak
Zarek peaked in 2025, when 85 boys were given it, #1,866 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 27 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #1,866 | 49.8 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,067 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,502 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,282 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,772 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,417 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,630 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,345 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,099 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,620 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,510 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,513 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,995 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,630 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,746 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,785 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,798 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,003 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,864 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,977 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,648 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 37 | #2,838 | 18.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,113 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,550 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,674 | 18.5 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,293 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,899 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,922 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,975 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,388 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,686 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,904 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,688 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,649 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,633 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,217 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zarek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zarek has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zarek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zarek, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,113 Americans ever recorded as Zarek. The median Zarek alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 857 people named Zarek (4 women and girls, 853 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 928 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 83 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 623 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 391 |
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 Zarek born?
The states with the most babies named Zarek are Texas, California and New York, with 86% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,412 | 1.0× |
| California | 12 | #1,506 | 0.4× |
| New York | 10 | #1,200 | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 6 | #808 | 0.3× |
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 Zarek 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 Zarek
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.
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