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Zeeshan

#8,895 in 2025Boys' name

From Arabic زِشَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Zeeshan has been given to 613 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #8,895 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Zeeshan, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zeeshan: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic زِشَان; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Zeeshan means

Zeeshan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zeeshan is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Zeeshan comes through Arabic زِشَان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 613 boys were recorded with the name Zeeshan between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2003; its best national rank was #3,357 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,228 in 2020 to #8,895 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,886 in 2015 to #8,895 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 Zeeshan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,895
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zeeshan 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 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zeeshan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zeeshans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zeeshan was born before 2005 — so the typical Zeeshan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
613
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2000s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Zeeshan 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
−595
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,667
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,009
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.1%
Peak was 2003 (28)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,357
2003

Spellings of Zeeshan

Zeeshan is not the most common spelling — Eshan is, with 51.2% against Zeeshan's 25.9%.

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 Zeeshan is used

Across 1910–2025, Zeeshan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,593,297 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Zeeshan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zeeshan around the world

Where Zeeshan 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
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–1999
    #288
    in 1999
  • Ireland
    2010–2010
    #720
    in 2010
  • France
    1993–2023
    #6,720
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Zeeshan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,895
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,667
Best rank ever
#3,357
2003
Peak year
2003
28 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
613
Count in 2025
9

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