Zhi — #11329 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zhi

The Social Security Administration has registered 176 babies named Zhi between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zhi currently holds the #11329 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Zhi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zhi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 93 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Zhi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 60 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zhi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zhi 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 176 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.