Zhen — #11446 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zhen

The Social Security Administration has registered 88 babies named Zhen between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zhen currently holds the #11446 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Zhen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zhen performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 49 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Zhen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zhen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zhen 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 88 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.