Boys' name · since 2016
Zahan
74 babies named Zahan in U.S. Social Security records since 2016, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #19,502 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #7,146 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 74
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
74 babies have been named Zahan since 2016, making it today's #7146 boys' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zahan has been recorded 74 times among boys since 2016, currently ranked #7146 nationally and more common than 49% of boys, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.
- #19,502 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #7,146 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 74 born since 2016
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zahan ranks #19,502 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #7,146 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 74 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.
- #19,502 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #7,146 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 74
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zahan's 74 recorded births place it above 57.11% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zahan compares
74 22nd percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Zahan's all-time total is 80% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zahan | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 74 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 34 | 22,252 |
Zahan's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Zahan splits its recorded history at 2022: 68% of all births land in the more recent half, 32% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2016 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Zahan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Zahan by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (63 births, 85% of the file).
2020s was Zahan's strongest decade.
63 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 85% of all-time use.
Zahan births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 11
2010s
11 births
- 2020s
2020s
63 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 63 births (85% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Zahan draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.