Zi — boys' name

What the Data Says About Zi

The Social Security Administration has registered 65 babies named Zi between 2002 and 2016, spanning 15 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zi currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Zi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 62 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 41 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Zi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zi 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 65 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.