Zhana
Zhana was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 159 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zhana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Zhana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Zhana is “a transliteration of the Belarusian or Macedonian female given name Жана (Žana)”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Zhana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,843, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1994, the peak
Zhana peaked in 1994, when 48 girls were given it, #2,621 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,843 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,799 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,545 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,160 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,500 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,735 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,331 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,413 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,735 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,126 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 26 | #4,092 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,621 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,578 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Zhana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Zhana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Zhana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zhana, and how old are they?
An estimated 156 Americans named Zhana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 27 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 302 people named Zhana (290 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,171 babies since 1880, Zhana is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 399 babies recorded by SSA was a Zhana (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Zhana
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 Zhana and names like it
- Compare Zhana and ZainaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZhana peaked in 1994.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zhana since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Zhana.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Zhana alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.