Zhane
Zhane is given to both girls and boys: 11 girls and 13 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,450 among girls’ names and #6,797 among boys’, #9,382 among all names counting both); 2,362 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Zhane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zhane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zhane?
#9,450 among girls’ names, 2025
Zhane rose from #10,137 in 2015 to #9,450 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 6.8 per million.
391 babies in 1994, the peak
Zhane peaked in 1994, when 391 girls were given it, #584 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,450 | 13 | #6,797 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,456 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,300 | 13 | #6,886 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,530 | 16 | #5,866 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,684 | 21 | #4,774 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,235 | 17 | #5,443 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,776 | 19 | #5,145 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,512 | 14 | #6,336 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,830 | 17 | #5,521 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,979 | 14 | #6,342 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,137 | 16 | #5,738 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,445 | 11 | #7,551 |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,024 | 21 | #4,618 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,620 | 21 | #4,681 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,143 | 15 | #5,936 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,243 | 6 | #12,212 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,674 | 12 | #7,227 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,758 | 22 | #4,534 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,940 | 10 | #8,163 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,730 | 9 | #8,720 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,262 | 13 | #6,216 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,625 | 15 | #5,484 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,527 | 14 | #5,549 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,388 | 10 | #7,042 |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,008 | 8 | #8,329 |
| 2000 | 93 | #1,850 | 13 | #5,577 |
| 1999 | 124 | #1,419 | 20 | #3,828 |
| 1998 | 133 | #1,327 | 12 | #5,458 |
| 1997 | 187 | #1,028 | 5 | #10,803 |
| 1996 | 155 | #1,173 | 5 | #10,524 |
| 1995 | 203 | #931 | 6 | #8,855 |
| 1994 | 391 | #584 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 69 | #2,027 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Zhane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,362 Americans recorded as Zhane, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zhane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zhane, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,362 Americans ever recorded as Zhane. The median Zhane alive today is 27 years old; half are between 19 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,704 people named Zhane (1,413 women and girls, 291 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 813 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 363 |
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 Zhane born?
The states with the most babies named Zhane are New York, New Jersey and California, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 207 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 131 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 96 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 92 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 91 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 79 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 78 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 67 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 59 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 58 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Zhane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zhane is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1993 it was given 1.9 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 girls’ 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 Zhane 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 5,720 babies since 1880, Zhane is the most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 71 babies (34%), the second 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 Zhane
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 Zhane and names like it
- Compare Zhane and ZanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sZhane peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zhane since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Zhane.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Zhane alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.