Zealand — #1542 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zealand

The Social Security Administration has registered 830 babies named Zealand between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zealand currently holds the #1542 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 134 babies received it in a single year. Zealand is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 72 additional births since 2010.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zealand performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 506 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Zealand shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 58 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Zealand in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zealand in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 830 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.