Zeke

maleStatistical record

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

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

Zeke: Recorded since 1997, it reached #416 in 2018, and it stood at #785 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#416highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2337
1998	#2419
1999	#2097
2000	#2501
2001	#1595
2002	#2636
2003	#2470
2004	#2070
2006	#1892
2007	#1756
2008	#1706
2009	#1425
2010	#1201
2011	#1688
2012	#1507
2013	#2403
2014	#1061
2015	#1159
2016	#1271
2017	#1812
2018	#1455
2019	#1369
2020	#1085
2021	#985
2022	#844
2023	#827
2024	#1025

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1025 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1025 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Zeke appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 425 births with the name.

Zeke across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Zeke's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2337 (1997)	#827 (2023)	#1025 (2024)	27 of 28	425 (1997–2024)	39 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#572 (2022)	#572 (2022)	#785 (2024)	2 of 3	8 (2022–2024)	5 (2022)

Zeke by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Zeke in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000s	76	9 of 10	8
2010s	176	10 of 10	18
2020sbusiest	160	5 of 10	32

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 32 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Zeke 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 3 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #416 in Northern Ireland in 2018.

Zeke'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
2024	England and Wales	male	#1025	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#827	39	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#844	37	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#985	30	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1085	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1812	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1159	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1507	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1201	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1595	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #416, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 39 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 25 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.

Zeina · #1603, 21y
Zeinab · #413, 43y
Zeki · #1595, 26y
Zelda · #420, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Jaylen · #416, 25y
Mikaeel · #416, 25y
Emaan · #415, 27y
Kaiser · #415, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Jaylen · #416, 25y
Kasim · #416, 29y
Mikaeel · #416, 25y
Zaina · #416, 30y

Zeke was ranked #416 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2018. 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.

Zeke 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 Zeke without appearing here.

Zeke moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2403 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1061 and #4632.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2470 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1892 and #4052.
Brent Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1756 and #1756 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #3687.
Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1756 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #3687.

Moved ahead of Zeke

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1595 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2636 and #848.
Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2070 and #1347.
Mathias Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1201 and #1620 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1688 and #1209.
Leif Compare
In 2022 they stood at #844 and #967 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #827 and #827.

Moved the opposite way to Zeke

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 while Aaron went from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 while Adam went from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 while Alan went from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Zeke

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 and Albie from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 and Alfie from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 and Alfred from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Zeke went from #2337 to #1025 and Archie from #141 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #416 in Northern Ireland in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Zeke

Zeke at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Zeke across 2 official records

Zeke by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zeke appears in

Popularity data

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Zeke at a glance

Zeke across 2 official records

Zeke by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Zeke appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Zeke

Zeke and the names beside it

Zeke moved ahead of

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