Boy Names That Start With Z
These are the 16 boy names that start with Z, have reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880, and still go to boys rather than girls today. Ranked by the number of boys given each name in 2025, most common first.
All 16 names
- Zion
- Zayden
- Zachary
- Zayn
- Zyaire
- Zane
- Zander
- Zayne
- Zaire
- Zachariah
- Zaiden
- Zack
- Zackary
- Zachery
- Zackery
- Zeb
Boy names that start with Z in the 2025 data
Z is the nineteenth most common first letter for boys born in 2025: 27,008 of them, 1.6% of every boy in the file. It has climbed from twentieth place a decade ago, and its share has grown from 1.3% to 1.6%.
This list holds the 16 of those names that reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to boys rather than girls. The most common today is Zion, #142 with 2,496 boys in 2025. 0 of the 16 are in this year's top 100, and 16 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Together they account for 12,709 of those 27,008 boys — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.
The fastest climber among them is Zyaire, up from #1,042 in 2015 to #317 in 2025. Zander has gone the other way, from #249 to #396. The shortest name here is Zeb at 3 letters, the longest Zachariah at 9.
Questions about boy names that start with Z
What is the most popular boy name that starts with Z?
Zion. 2,496 boys were given the name in 2025, which put it at #142 nationally.
How many boy names start with Z?
16 have reached the top 500 as a boy's name and still go to boys today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 27,008 boys born in 2025 — 1.6% of the total — were given a name starting with Z.
Are boy names that start with Z getting more popular?
Z is gaining ground. It was twentieth among first letters for boys a decade ago with 1.3% of births, and it is nineteenth in 2025 with 1.6%.