Meaning not yet researched.
Zeus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 140 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,067 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,067 in 2024; #1,351 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zeus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,351 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,067.
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Zeus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 140 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,067 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 205 (2024).
In 2025, 140 US boys were named Zeus, making it the 1,351st most common boys’ name of the year, down 284 places from #1,067 in 2024. That is 65 fewer than the 205 boys named Zeus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,067, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 205. For comparison, it was #1,462 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zeus in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 2,696 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,127 babies named Zeus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,644 US boys were named Zeus; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 205. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,201 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zeus ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #868 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Zias and Zyus 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Zias (61), Zyus (11).
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 Zeus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 10 | #868 | — |
| California | 27 | #883 | #875 |
| Maryland | 5 | #921 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #925 | #726 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,134 | #815 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,185 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,275 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,295 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 140 | #1,351 |
| 2024 | — | — | 205 | #1,067 |
| 2023 | — | — | 180 | #1,160 |
| 2022 | — | — | 186 | #1,134 |
| 2021 | — | — | 174 | #1,155 |
| 2020 | — | — | 159 | #1,200 |
| 2019 | — | — | 176 | #1,117 |
| 2018 | — | — | 144 | #1,281 |
| 2017 | — | — | 152 | #1,212 |
| 2016 | — | — | 128 | #1,385 |
| 2015 | — | — | 116 | #1,462 |
| 2014 | — | — | 100 | #1,587 |
| 2013 | — | — | 85 | #1,732 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,817 |
| 2011 | — | — | 76 | #1,865 |
| 2010 | — | — | 68 | #2,036 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,450 |
| 2008 | — | — | 48 | #2,631 |
| 2007 | — | — | 39 | #3,024 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,082 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,613 |
| 2004 | — | — | 23 | #4,003 |
| 2003 | — | — | 28 | #3,363 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,093 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,929 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,921 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,375 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #4,018 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,959 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,495 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,861 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,964 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,636 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,869 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,489 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,227 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,268 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,151 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,825 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,582 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,559 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,618 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,353 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,856 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,875 |
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).