Meaning not yet researched.
Zealand: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,387 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,387 in 2022; #1,770 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zealand in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,770 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,387.
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Zealand: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,387 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 135 (2022).
In 2025, 92 US boys were named Zealand, making it the 1,770th most common boys’ name of the year, down 241 places from #1,529 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 116 boys named Zealand in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,387, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #3,879 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zealand in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 9 babies. In all, 997 US babies have been given the name, 7.2% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 645 babies named Zealand.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 710 US boys were named Zealand; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 135. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zealand ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #809 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zeland, Zyland and Zeeland are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zeland (23), Zyland (21), Zeeland (17).
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 Zealand 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 5 | #809 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #841 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #887 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,073 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,468 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,507 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,827 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 92 | #1,770 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,267 | 116 | #1,529 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,299 | 99 | #1,710 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,977 | 135 | #1,387 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,550 | 126 | #1,440 |
| 2020 | — | — | 33 | #3,417 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,433 | 31 | #3,633 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,737 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,376 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,469 |
| 2015 | 5 | #19,073 | 28 | #3,879 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,189 | 33 | #3,368 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,239 | 23 | #4,310 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,682 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,671 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,798 | 16 | #5,734 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,329 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #6,063 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #8,163 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,458 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #11,341 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,412 |
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).