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Zaman

Boys' name

Possibly time, through زمان

Zaman has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 2002. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Zaman, 2020

1 in 477,000

Zaman over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zaman: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly time, through زمان

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zaman means

Zaman belongs to the name family reached through Zaman → زمان. Its meaning is “time”.

Origin, language, and formation

Zaman is used in Turkish.

Zaman comes through Ottoman Turkish زمان, Old Anatolian Turkish زمان and Persian زمان.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include زمان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 boys were recorded with the name Zaman between 2002 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2002; its best national rank was #8,441 in 2002.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Zaman?

Zaman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 247,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zaman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zaman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zamans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zaman was born before 2012 — so the typical Zaman is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Zaman rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (8)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,441
2002

Spellings of Zaman

Zaman is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 34.4% against Zaman's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Zaman around the world

Where Zaman ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Zaman by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,441
2002
Peak year
2002
8 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zaman

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Zaman

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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