Zeev
- Gender
- Boy
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Zeev is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
Is Zeev a girl's or a boy's name?
Zeev is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zeev in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Zeev, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 1991.
Half of all the boys named Zeev in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 283 boys in the US were given Zeev or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #795, up from #10,690 for this spelling alone.
- Zev 277
- Zeev 6
Zeev in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,867 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,631 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,228 |
Names like Zeev
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aarav, Dhruv, Veer, Kash, Krishiv, Neev, Shiv, Atharv, Ash, Krish, Avyaan, Vihaan
Other spellings of Zeev
Names related to Zeev
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Zeev: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zeev, updated 20 October 2026.