Zeb
Zeb is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 504th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 197965 births
- Best rank
- #504in 1888
- Since 1880
- 2,738people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,738 boys have been named Zeb in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 65 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Zeb | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 99 | |
| 1890s | 74 | |
| 1900s | 81 | |
| 1910s | 228 | |
| 1920s | 327 | |
| 1930s | 195 | |
| 1940s | 152 | |
| 1950s | 138 | |
| 1960s | 96 | |
| 1970s | 241 | |
| 1980s | 259 | |
| 1990s | 239 | |
| 2000s | 305 | |
| 2010s | 228 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1979, its biggest year
Zeb was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1979 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, David and James. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Zeb
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Enospeak 1921
- Amospeak 1922
- Wileypeak 1921
- Youngpeak 1991
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Oscarpeak 2006
- Antonpeak 1915
- Eliepeak 2009
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.