Zealand
Zealand was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,770 among boys’ names; 997 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zealand by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zealand?
#1,770 among boys’ names, 2025
Zealand rose from #3,878 in 2015 to #1,770 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 53.9 per million.
152 babies in 2022, the peak
Zealand peaked in 2022, when 152 babies were given it (135 boys, #1,387 among boys’ names). The 92 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,770 | 53.9 |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,529 | 67.3 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,710 | 57.9 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,387 | 77.3 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,440 | 72.0 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,415 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,630 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,733 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,374 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,468 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,878 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,366 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,308 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,678 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,666 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,730 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,327 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #6,058 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,159 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,573 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,450 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,334 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,648 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #7,404 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zealand a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 997 Americans recorded as Zealand, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 92 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zealand: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zealand, and how old are they?
An estimated 990 Americans named Zealand and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 375 people named Zealand (50 women and girls, 325 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 358 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zealand
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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