Zion — #151 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Zion

The Social Security Administration has registered 44,345 babies named Zion between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Zion currently holds the #151 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 2,883 babies received it in a single year. Zion is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,928 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zion performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 17,783 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Zion shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,228 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Zion in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zion 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 44,345 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.