Zani — #10754 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Zani

The Social Security Administration has registered 153 babies named Zani between 2004 and 2024, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zani currently holds the #10754 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Zani is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 101 additional births since 2009.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zani performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 82 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Zani shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zani in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zani in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 153 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.