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Zenon

#6,135 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Zeno

Zenon has been given to 1,276 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #6,135 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Zenon, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zenon: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Zeno

Ancient Greek

What Zenon means

Zenon is a form of Zeno.

Origin, language, and formation

Zenon is used in English, Latin, Occitan and Polish. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Zenon comes through Ancient Greek Ζήνων.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Zeno.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Zenon is pronounced [ˈzeː.noːn].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,276 boys were recorded with the name Zenon between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,587 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,970 in 2020 to #6,135 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,026 in 2015 to #6,135 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 Zenon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,135
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zenon 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zenon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zenons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zenon was born before 1973 — so the typical Zenon is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
932
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (168).

Is Zenon 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
−904
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,891
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.2%
Peak was 1954 (23)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,587
1910

Spellings of Zenon

Zenon is not the most common spelling — Leon is, with 28.3% against Zenon's 0.20%.

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 Zenon is used

Across 1910–2025, Zenon was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 771,562 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Zenon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zenon around the world

Where Zenon 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
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2024
    #5,345
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Zenon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,135
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 165
Best rank ever
#1,587
1910
Peak year
1954
23 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,276
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Zenon

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

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Sibling names for Zenon

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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