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Zealand vs Zeandre

American parents have registered 997 Zealands since 1880, against 55 Zeandres. Zealand is still ahead, with 92 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zealand against Zeandre, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zealand Zeandre

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 27 years in which either name was published, Zealand for 24 years and Zeandre for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Zealand Zeandre
Total US births 99755
Most in one year 15237
Babies in 2025 92under 5
Estimated living today 99050
Median age today 428
Peak year 20221997
Best rank 1,379th boys2,260th boys
Rank in 2025 1,753rdunranked
First recorded 20001997
Girls / boys 72 / 9250 / 55

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zeandres alive today are over 28; half the Zealands are over 4. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zealand and Zeandre.