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Zhana

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zhana has been given to 159 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 1994, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Zhana, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zhana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zhana means

Zhana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zhana is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 159 girls were recorded with the name Zhana between 1993 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,621 in 1994.

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 Zhana?

Zhana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zhana 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zhana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zhanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zhana was born before 1995 — so the typical Zhana is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
76.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
159
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 76.1% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Zhana 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (48)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
88.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,621
1994

Spellings of Zhana

Zhana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 23.9% against Zhana'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.

Where Zhana is used

Across 1910–2025, Zhana was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 931,388 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 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. Zhana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zhana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,621
1994
Peak year
1994
48 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
159
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Zhana

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

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Sibling names for Zhana

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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