Boys' name · since 2015
Zaheen
Zaheen has 40 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #23,804 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,632 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 40
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
40 babies have been named Zaheen since 2015, making it today's #11632 boys' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zaheen has been recorded 40 times among boys since 2015, currently ranked #11632 nationally and more common than 16% 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 2015 to 2025.
- #23,804 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #11,632 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 40 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Zaheen ranks #23,804 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,632 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 40 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #23,804 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #11,632 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 40
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Zaheen's 40 recorded births place it above 47.64% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Zaheen compares
40 14th 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
Zaheen's all-time total is 89% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Zaheen | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 40 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 34 | 22,252 |
Zaheen's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Zaheen splits its recorded history at 2022: 63% of all births land in the more recent half, 37% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2015 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Zaheen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Zaheen by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (25 births, 63% of the file).
2020s was Zaheen's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 63% of all-time use.
Zaheen births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
15 births
- 2020s
2020s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 25 births (63% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Zaheen: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~10 yrs)
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, 2015–2025 (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 Zaheen 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.