Zenon
Zenon was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,135 among boys’ names; 1,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zenon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zenon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zenon is “a male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Zeno.”
From Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zenon?
#6,135 among boys’ names, 2025
Zenon rose from #8,026 in 2015 to #6,135 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 8.8 per million.
23 babies in 1954, the peak
Zenon peaked in 1954, when 23 boys were given it, #1,626 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,135 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,231 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,506 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,817 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,150 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,970 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,805 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,608 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,128 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,781 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #8,026 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,988 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #7,011 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #7,036 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,653 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,732 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,427 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,534 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,612 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,088 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,055 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,510 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,262 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,077 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,382 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,756 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 11 | #6,030 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,191 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,635 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #4,015 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,398 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,362 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,218 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,105 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,512 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,811 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,519 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,442 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #6,079 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,324 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,396 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,554 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,479 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,380 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,217 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,492 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,355 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,768 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,382 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,931 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,457 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,186 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,690 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,988 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,652 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,832 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,402 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,671 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,548 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,325 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,980 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,852 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #4,046 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,501 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,897 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,971 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,660 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,175 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,950 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,884 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,137 | 7.3 |
| 1954 | 23 | #1,626 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 19 | #1,834 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,802 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,681 | 11.2 |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,019 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,007 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,729 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,170 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,782 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,107 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,228 | 4.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,503 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,129 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,967 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,033 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #2,852 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,643 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,201 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,002 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,848 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,206 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,018 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,977 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,658 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,910 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,564 | 10.8 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,861 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,228 | 13.2 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,121 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,483 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,319 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,456 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,880 | 18.4 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,708 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,089 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,769 | 20.2 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,827 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,454 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,818 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,542 | 14.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,998 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,587 | 30.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Zenon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zenon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zenon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zenon, and how old are they?
An estimated 863 Americans named Zenon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 16 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,401 people named Zenon (14 women and girls, 2,387 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 830 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,147 babies since 1880, Zenon is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 283 babies (5.3%), 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 Zenon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kalman | 1,258 | |
| Vaughan | 1,637 | |
| Constantine | 6,720 | |
| Marino | 2,231 |
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 Zenon and names like it
- Compare Zenon and ZenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sZenon peaked in 1954.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zenon since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Zenon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zenon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.