Boys' name · since 2017

Zeo

72 babies named Zeo in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#19,683 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#8,816 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
72
born since 2017
2020s
peak decade

Zeo currently ranks #8816 among boys' names in America, with 72 babies recorded since 2017.

Social Security Administration records show Zeo recorded 72 times among boys since 2017, holding rank #8816 nationally today, ahead of 37% of boys, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.

  • #19,683 of 45,481 all-time among boys
  • #8,816 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
  • 72 born since 2017
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zeo ranks #19,683 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,816 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 72 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.

#19,683 of 45,481
all-time among boys
#8,816 of 13,930
2025 SSA year
72
born since 2017
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%36.7%
Zeo vs. every other boys name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Zeo's 72 recorded births place it above 56.72% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Zeo compares

72 21st percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Zeo's all-time total is 80% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Zeo Median boys name (Takari) #1 boys name (Liam)
All-time total births 72 369 358,536
Peak-year births 15 34 22,252

Zeo's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Zeo splits its recorded history at 2022: 69% of all births land in the more recent half, 31% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2017 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.

Zeo popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2023)
15
Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
05101520 20172018201920202022202320242025 9

Zeo by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (55 births, 76% of the file).

2020s was Zeo's strongest decade.

55 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 76% of all-time use.

Zeo births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 55 births (76% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Zeo?
72 babies have been named Zeo since 2017. All-time, it sits at #19,683 of 45,481 boys' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #8,816 of 13,930 among boys. The peak year was 2023 with 15 births.
Where does Zeo sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zeo ranks #19,683 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,816 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Zeo most popular?
Zeo was most popular in the 2020s decade with 55 total births. The single peak year was 2023.
How long has the name Zeo been used?
The SSA has tracked Zeo since 2017 -- 9 years through the most recent 2025 data.
What names are similar to Zeo?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Zeon, Zeovanni. These share a common prefix and are also used for boys.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Zeo: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Zeo draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.