Given name & surname
Zero
“having no value”
Zero is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “having no value.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “having no value.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zero through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 41
- 41 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #6,444 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,444 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 421 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zero’s family of names
Zero has a related form in Zeroe. Zero has a related form in Zeroh. Zero has a related form in Zerow.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Zero
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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