Ziyan
Ziyan is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#17,264 among girls’ names and #6,136 among boys’, #10,625 among all names counting both); 438 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ziyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ziyan?
#6,136 among boys’ names, 2025
Ziyan rose from #7,481 in 2015 to #6,136 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 8.8 per million.
34 babies in 2012, the peak
Ziyan peaked in 2012, when 34 babies were given it (16 boys, #5,713 among boys’ names). The 20 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,264 | 15 | #6,136 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,978 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 13 | #6,888 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 12 | #7,252 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,226 | 7 | #10,787 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,237 | 13 | #6,613 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,100 | 13 | #6,765 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,144 | 15 | #6,030 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,335 | 12 | #7,089 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,106 | 18 | #5,311 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,924 | 11 | #7,481 |
| 2014 | 8 | #13,053 | 12 | #7,039 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,600 | 12 | #7,014 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,136 | 16 | #5,713 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,773 | 7 | #10,789 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,221 | 10 | #8,125 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,417 | 13 | #6,795 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,485 | 13 | #6,756 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,532 | 8 | #9,778 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #14,024 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,631 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #9,938 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,881 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #12,290 |
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 Ziyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 438 Americans recorded as Ziyan, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ziyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ziyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 434 Americans named Ziyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 718 people named Ziyan (422 women and girls, 296 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Ziyan?
Ziyan is a less common spelling of Zyan: SSA has recorded 438 Ziyan and 2,074 Zyan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 63,786 babies since 1880, Ziyan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 3,079 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Ziyan
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 Ziyan and names like it
- Compare Ziyan and ZyanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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