girls:
37 births since 1939
#5679 (1st percentile)
boys:
84 births since 1976
#4502 (2nd percentile)
overall:
121 births since 1939
#7618 (2nd percentile)
The name Zee is the #7,618 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 121 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,502 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,679 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 37 births since 1939.
Zee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (1939 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Zee is available in 19 out of the 85 years between 1939 and 2023 (13 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Zee has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Zee were boys. Interestingly, until around 1976, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1939 to 1975), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (89.4% boys from 1976 to 2023).
For boys, Zee reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #912) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zee ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 84.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zee reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #580) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zee".
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