Zyon
Zyon was given to 249 boys in 2025, #947 among boys’ names; 5,045 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,000 Americans named Zyon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Zyon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Zyon?
#947 among boys’ names, 2025
Zyon rose from #1,238 in 2015 to #947 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.15 per 1,000.
292 babies in 2023, the peak
Zyon peaked in 2023, when 292 babies were given it (277 boys, #862 among boys’ names). The 254 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,292 | 249 | #947 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,550 | 250 | #929 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,633 | 277 | #862 |
| 2022 | 12 | #9,050 | 277 | #872 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,244 | 242 | #936 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,207 | 176 | #1,123 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,303 | 213 | #993 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,310 | 198 | #1,033 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,188 | 161 | #1,169 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,921 | 183 | #1,079 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,851 | 148 | #1,238 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,765 | 114 | #1,446 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,641 | 139 | #1,260 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,211 | 150 | #1,201 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,912 | 158 | #1,148 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,492 | 152 | #1,189 |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,559 | 160 | #1,147 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,265 | 143 | #1,226 |
| 2007 | 85 | #2,292 | 167 | #1,097 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,574 | 130 | #1,288 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,190 | 102 | #1,451 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,964 | 104 | #1,381 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,498 | 84 | #1,534 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,238 | 66 | #1,768 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,750 | 90 | #1,395 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,525 | 66 | #1,720 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,477 | 95 | #1,290 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 20 | #3,703 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #9,007 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #10,323 |
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 Zyon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,045 Americans recorded as Zyon, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 249 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Zyon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Zyon, and how old are they?
5,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,045 Americans ever recorded as Zyon. The median Zyon alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,739 people named Zyon (507 women and girls, 2,232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,517 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,880 |
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).
Where are babies named Zyon born?
The states with the most babies named Zyon are Texas, Florida and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #1,011 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 23 | #703 | 1.4× |
| New York | 19 | #769 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 18 | #593 | 2.2× |
| California | 16 | #1,240 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #824 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #791 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 10 | #869 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 9 | #939 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #765 | 0.6× |
Where Zyon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Zyon is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1995 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Zyon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Zyon?
Zyon is a less common spelling of Zion: SSA has recorded 5,045 Zyon and 53,897 Zion since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,236 babies since 1880, Zyon is the second most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 254 of their 3,119 babies (8.1%), again the second 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 Zyon
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 Zyon and names like it
- Compare Zyon and ZionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sZyon peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Zyon since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Zyon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Zyon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with ZMost given first.