Zavion
Zavion was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,257 among boys’ names; 3,231 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,190 Americans named Zavion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zavion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zavion?
#2,257 among boys’ names, 2025
Zavion fell from #1,490 in 2015 to #2,257 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 58.4 to 36.9 per million.
199 babies in 2009, the peak
Zavion peaked in 2009, when 199 boys were given it, #996 among boys’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,257 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 82 | #1,936 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,095 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,080 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,666 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,672 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,677 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,546 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,622 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,325 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,490 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 125 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,314 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,211 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 176 | #1,070 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 186 | #1,043 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 199 | #996 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 176 | #1,069 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 165 | #1,114 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 143 | #1,184 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 111 | #1,360 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,150 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 89 | #1,475 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,254 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 76 | #1,586 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,870 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 68 | #1,600 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,595 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,782 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,758 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,408 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,101 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,569 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zavion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zavion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zavion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zavion, and how old are they?
3,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,231 Americans ever recorded as Zavion. The median Zavion alive today is 15 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,087 people named Zavion (19 women and girls, 2,068 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,744 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 50 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,290 |
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).
Where are babies named Zavion born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7 | #1,215 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,942 | 0.8× |
Where Zavion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zavion is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1985 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zavion with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,698 babies since 1880, Zavion is the most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 492 babies (13%), the third 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Zavion
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 Zavion and names like it
- Compare Zavion and ZavianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sZavion peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zavion since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Zavion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zavion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.