Zeke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the male given name Ezekiel, also used as a formal given name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ziːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zeke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 51K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 65K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 8.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 314 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,547 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the male given name Ezekiel, also used as a formal given name.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zeke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
6,547 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); the wgnd-ug-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Zeke is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, jacket
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
English (esp. U.S.): short form of EZEKIEL , still occasionally used as an independent given name.
as a word
In Dutch, singular past subjunctive of zeiken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, doublet (a man's short jacket)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zeke Wilsonb. 1869USMajor League Baseball pitcher (1869-1928)
- Zeke Wrigleyb. 1874USAmerican baseball player (1874-1952)
- Zeke Zarchyb. 1915USAmerican jazz trumpeter (1915–2009)
- Zeke Martinb. 1924USAmerican gridiron football player (1924-2006)
- Zeke Bratkowskib. 1931USAmerican football player (1931-2019)
- Zeke Markshausenb. 1987USAmerican football player
- Zeke Spruillb. 1989USAmerican baseball player
- Zeke Marshallb. 1990USAmerican basketball player
- Zeke Upshawb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (1991-2018)
- Zeke Mostovb. 1996UScyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.5K | #3,258 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 459 | #2,942 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 311 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 248 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #3,258 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2017 | 9 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 8 | #7,711 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1944 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2016 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1994 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zeke mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the male given name Ezekiel, also used as a formal given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Zeke a male or female name?
- Zeke is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Zeke?
- A machine transcription gives /ziːk/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Zeke?
- In the etymology graph, Ezequiel and Ezechiel are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ezekiel.
- In which country does Zeke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Zeke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zeke.
- How common is the name Zeke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,547 people named Zeke in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zekeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zeke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.