Ze

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ze: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ze: Recorded every year since 2005, its highest recorded position is #629, and it was last ranked in 2018.

2registrars recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
14years from first to last
#629highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2005–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#3849
2006	#3385
2008	#3687
2009	#2837
2010	#3332
2011	#3300
2012	#2270
2013	#4685
2014	#2459
2015	#3908
2016	#4023
2017	#4812
2018	#4749

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 13 of the 14 years from 2005 to 2018.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2005–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #3849 among boys in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #4749 among boys in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Boys

Ze appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #629 in Republic of Ireland in 2007.

Ze's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2270	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2005 and 2018, ranked in 14 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #629, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 2 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Zayyan · #442, 28y
Zbigniew · #139, 37y
Zeb · #1903, 28y
Zeba · #1072, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Balazs · #629, 13y
Brandyn · #629, 11y
Grantas · #629, 10y
Maksims · #629, 11y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Balazs · #629, 13y
Grantas · #629, 10y
Maksims · #629, 11y
Zihan · #629, 12y

Ze was ranked #629 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ze and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ze without appearing here.

Ze moved ahead of

Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3300 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2459 and #4632.
Kim Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4685 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #4747.
Tayla Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4685 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #4747.
Ada Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3687 and #2775 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3332 and #3865.

Moved ahead of Ze

Aksel Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2270 and #3416 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #4685 and #2403.
Daithi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2459 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #4023 and #3079.
Gunnar Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2459 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #3373.

Moved the opposite way to Ze

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2018 in England and Wales · Boys, Ze went from #3385 to #4749 while Aksel went from #4052 to #1382.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2005 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #629 in Republic of Ireland in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

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