Zanae
Zanae was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,902 among girls’ names; 309 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zanae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zanae?
#14,902 among girls’ names, 2025
Zanae fell from #11,816 in 2015 to #14,902 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.7 per million.
20 babies in 2010, the peak
Zanae peaked in 2010, when 20 girls were given it, #6,631 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,902 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #11,099 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,421 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,662 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,117 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,425 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,119 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,747 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,856 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,833 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,816 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,523 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,716 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,101 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,845 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,631 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,657 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,956 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,995 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,834 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,246 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,308 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,229 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,740 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,137 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,107 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,543 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zanae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zanae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zanae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zanae, and how old are they?
An estimated 306 Americans named Zanae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Zanae (225 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 260 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 13,778 babies since 1880, Zanae is the eighth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 441 babies (1.4%), again the eighth most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zanae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Zanae and names like it
- Compare Zanae and ZainaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sZanae peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zanae since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Zanae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zanae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.