Meaning not yet researched.
Zael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 134 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,381 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 96% of babies named Zael in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,381 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Zael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 134 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,381 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 134 (2025).
In 2025, 134 US boys were named Zael, making it the 1,381st most common boys’ name of the year, up 451 places from #1,832 in 2024. That is 45 more than the 89 boys named Zael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,381, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 134. For comparison, it was #7,055 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zael in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 7 babies. In all, 678 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 450 babies named Zael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 566 US boys were named Zael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,747 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zael ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #780 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Saul (43,362 babies since 1880) and Sal (3,663 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Zaiel, Zaiyel and Zayel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zaiel (197), Zaiyel (26), Zayel (23).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 8 | #780 | — |
| California | 28 | #861 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #894 | — |
| Texas | 27 | #936 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,051 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,055 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,226 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,475 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,218 | 134 | #1,381 |
| 2024 | — | — | 89 | #1,832 |
| 2023 | — | — | 56 | #2,440 |
| 2022 | — | — | 70 | #2,134 |
| 2021 | — | — | 62 | #2,275 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,340 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,805 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,101 |
| 2017 | — | — | 23 | #4,462 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #6,047 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #7,055 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #7,041 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,765 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,851 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,995 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,742 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,300 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,521 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,898 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,571 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,450 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,927 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).