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Zana

#4,982 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zana has been given to 2,288 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #4,982 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 252 recorded.

Babies named Zana, 2025

1 in 123,000

Zana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zana means

Zana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zana is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,288 girls were recorded with the name Zana between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 252 in 1994; its best national rank was #803 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,073 in 2020 to #4,982 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,028 in 2015 to #4,982 in 2025.

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 Zana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,982
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zana was born before 1992 — so the typical Zana is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,714
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (556).

Is Zana 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
+309
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,091
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,046
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.7%
Peak was 1994 (252)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#803
1994

Spellings of Zana

Zana is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 12.7% against Zana's 0.03%.

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.

Where Zana is used

Across 1910–2025, Zana was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 329,695 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in —
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Louisiana1 in —
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Zana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zana around the world

Where Zana 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
    1996–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1965–2025
    #1,817
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Zana

People whose public names include Zana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Zana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,982
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,091
Best rank ever
#803
1994
Peak year
1994
252 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,288
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Zana

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

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Names with a curve like Zana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Zana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Zana

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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