Zealand is a place name, taken from New Zealand or the Danish island of Zealand; the Dutch original Zeeland means "sea land". As a first name it belongs to the recent fashion for adventurous geographic names with a strong Z, next to Zion and Zephyr. Zealand jumped from around number 3400 in 2020 to a peak of number 1387 in 2022 and ranks number 1770 among boys' names in 2025.