Zeus is a first name for boys.
Zeus is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1217 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,216 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zeus.
In fact, the name Zeus did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Zeus seemed to be more popular than ever in 2019. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,044, 175 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Zeus, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Zeus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Zeus a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,046 - with a total of 186 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Zeus in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Zeus is registered in 17 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Zeus live in Nevada, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 23,571 men and boys in Nevada for their name before you meet one who answers with Zeus.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Zeus is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.
If your name is Zeus and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zeus, you can simply say:
Zebra
Elephant
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zeus
Zeus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
E
U
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Z
E
U
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Zeus sounds like this:
