Zeth
Zeth was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,904 among boys’ names; 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Zeth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zeth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zeth?
#13,904 among boys’ names, 2025
Zeth fell from #4,076 in 2015 to #13,904 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 2.9 per million.
59 babies in 1999, the peak
Zeth peaked in 1999, when 59 boys were given it, #1,745 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,904 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,330 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,728 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,753 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,151 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,724 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,785 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,533 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,741 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,939 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #4,076 | 13.6 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,696 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,398 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,524 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,107 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,451 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,636 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,629 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,441 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,346 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,320 | 25.5 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,484 | 22.7 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,842 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,331 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,180 | 24.7 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,044 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 59 | #1,745 | 30.7 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,702 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,343 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,477 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,293 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,496 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,340 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,992 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,908 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,482 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,099 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,197 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,515 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,264 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,397 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,211 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,910 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,689 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,598 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,131 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,400 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #5,053 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,853 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zeth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zeth has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zeth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zeth, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,202 Americans ever recorded as Zeth. The median Zeth alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,014 people named Zeth (1 woman or girl, 1,013 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,131 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 333 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 180 |
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 Zeth born?
The states with the most babies named Zeth are Texas, California and Ohio, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 95 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Zeth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zeth is most over-represented in Texas: since 1977 it was given 1.1 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 Zeth 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 Zeth
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 Zeth and names like it
- Compare Zeth and JarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZeth peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zeth since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Zeth.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zeth alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.