Zana
Zana was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,982 among girls’ names; 2,288 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Zana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zana?
#4,982 among girls’ names, 2025
Zana rose from #6,028 in 2015 to #4,982 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 16.8 per million.
252 babies in 1994, the peak
Zana peaked in 1994, when 252 girls were given it, #803 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,982 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,291 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,234 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,901 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 14 | #8,012 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,073 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,905 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,776 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,798 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,630 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #6,028 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,047 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,022 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,551 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,419 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,175 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,373 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,125 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,224 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,699 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,188 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,279 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,410 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,491 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,681 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,639 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,890 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,134 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,772 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,505 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,857 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 252 | #803 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,152 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,501 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,577 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,488 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,151 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,490 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,979 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,454 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,454 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,307 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,368 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,413 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,186 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,641 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,337 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,597 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,166 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #5,008 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,660 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,551 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,052 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,218 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,841 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,864 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,047 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,672 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,063 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,541 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,541 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,561 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,908 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,985 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,103 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,512 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,346 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,389 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,455 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,623 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,693 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,730 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,025 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,961 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,425 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,224 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,031 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,426 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,420 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,128 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #4,037 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,562 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,162 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,376 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,807 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,263 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,440 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,926 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,513 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,085 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,829 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,126 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,607 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,821 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,979 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,864 | 0.01 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,672 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,057 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,925 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,939 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,696 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,820 | 0.02 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,169 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,530 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 9 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 127 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zana, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 2,288 Americans ever recorded as Zana. The median Zana alive today is 32 years old; half are between 20 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,988 people named Zana (1,897 women and girls, 91 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,694 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 66 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 255 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 155 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 543 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 435 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 282 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,996 babies since 1880, Zana is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 507 babies (5.3%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
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