Zishe — boys' name
21 babies named Zishe in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Zishe was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Zishe in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Zishe
The Social Security Administration has registered 21 babies named Zishe between 1996 and 2023, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zishe currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Zishe performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 10 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Zishe shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zishe in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Zishe 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 21 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.
Zishe at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Zishe popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1996
- Peak year (2018)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
21 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 6 births in a single year.
Zishe by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 10 births that decade — 48% of Zishe's all-time total
Zishe decade highlights
- Peak decade 10 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Zishe's strongest decade
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Zishe by state
Where Zishe concentrates geographically — total births since 1996
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 15 | 71.4% |
15 of 21 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 71.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 71.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1996–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.