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Zeus

2,696 recorded births · active 1973–2025

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Living-age distribution

The median living Zeus is 8. If you meet a Zeus, there's about a 70% chance they're between 3 and 19 years old.

Popularity arc

Peak Zeus: 2024. Down 14% from peak.

Projected: the dashed 10-year forecast (Holt damped-trend exponential smoothing, fit to recent years), with a shaded 95% interval.

Gender balance

Zeus is almost always given to male babies — 100% male.

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Rarity

Zeus ranks #6,293 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.

94.1%more common
Commonness rank#6,293of 105,966

Name neighbors

People named Zeus have popularity-curve siblings named:

AsherKoraAmirEzekielLiah

Geographic fingerprint

Zeuss are 1.7x more common in the West than the national average.

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Predictive modeling

Three statistical models, all fit to Zeus's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.

Peak popularity prediction

Zeus's modeled peak was #2,232 in 2024 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.

Top 1000
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Top 500
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Top 100
0% chance
Top 50
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Top 10
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Projects the trend forward, then converts share into rank using this year's popularity distribution.

This forecasts Zeus's share of births by fitting a damped-trend model to its last 45 years of data and projecting 10 years forward with a widening uncertainty band. Each projected share is then translated into a rank by comparing it against 2025's actual name-popularity distribution — so the model implicitly assumes the overall shape of that distribution doesn't shift much over the forecast window. Its trend is projected to stay below its historic best over the next 10 years, so the model treats 2024 as its peak. Milestone probabilities come from how much of each year's uncertainty band clears that milestone's rank, combined across years as if they were independent — which slightly overstates the odds for names sitting right at a threshold, since a good year is usually followed by another good year rather than an independent coin flip.

Name life-cycle stage

A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.

Peaking

Zeus's all-time high was just 1 year ago (2024) — it's at or very near its historic peak right now.

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Popularity survival model

Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?

Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.

Zeus isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.

If Zeus enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:

71%
5 years
63%
10 years
48%
20 years

Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.