Zeev
A Hebrew name meaning "wolf". Only about 116 men in Poland carry it, and none were registered last year: most Poles will never meet a single one.
Zeev Pronunciation
What Zeev means
Where Zeev comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Zeev comes from Hebrew, where ze'ev means wolf. The word is old and plain. It names an animal that Jewish tradition knew closely, and that closeness shaped how the name was carried.
In the book of Genesis, Jacob blesses his youngest son Benjamin and calls him a ravenous wolf (Genesis 49:27). That verse bound the wolf to the tribe of Benjamin, which is one reason the name settled so firmly in Jewish use. The meaning never softened into metaphor. A wolf stayed a wolf.
The best known bearer is Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the writer and Zionist leader born in Odessa in 1880. Through him the name took on a public, political weight across the twentieth century, far from its quiet biblical root. In Polish the sense stays exactly the same: Zeev means wilk, the wolf.
How many people are named Zeev
1 in 184019 men in Poland is named Zeev. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3151 among male names.
Zeev as a middle name
Zeev is a first name for 116 men in Poland and a middle name for another 64, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 915th, between Wieslaw (64) and Ścibor (64).
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#913 Wesley64
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#914 Wieslaw64
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#915 Zeev64
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#916 Ścibor64
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#917 Aharon63