Zian
Zian was given to 60 boys in 2025, #2,331 among boys’ names; 1,050 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Zian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zian?
#2,331 among boys’ names, 2025
Zian rose from #3,362 in 2015 to #2,331 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 35.1 per million.
73 babies in 2022, the peak
Zian peaked in 2022, when 73 boys were given it, #2,081 among boys’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 60 | #2,331 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 60 | #2,369 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 70 | #2,111 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 73 | #2,081 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 48 | #2,693 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 66 | #2,138 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,980 | 41 | #2,990 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 41 | #2,941 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 36 | #3,247 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,191 | 36 | #3,228 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,466 | 34 | #3,362 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 30 | #3,614 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,568 | 35 | #3,185 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,834 | 31 | #3,525 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,363 | 28 | #3,788 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,779 | 21 | #4,674 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,667 | 23 | #4,426 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,797 | 16 | #5,760 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,086 | 20 | #4,804 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,136 | 17 | #5,297 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,443 | 10 | #7,629 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,812 | 11 | #6,966 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,761 | 8 | #8,630 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,417 | 14 | #5,386 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,505 | 17 | #4,667 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,858 | 17 | #4,563 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,464 | 21 | #3,698 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 9 | #6,831 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,804 |
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 Zian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,050 Americans recorded as Zian, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 60 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zian, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,050 Americans ever recorded as Zian. The median Zian alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 795 people named Zian (194 women and girls, 601 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 684 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 650 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,233 babies since 1880, Zian is the fifth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 3,122 babies (1.9%), the fourth 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 Zian
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 Zian and names like it
- Compare Zian and ZionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Zian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.