Zian

#2,331 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Zian has been given to 1,050 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #2,331 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 73 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.

Babies named Zian, 2025

1 in 55,300

Zian over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Zian over time

In 2025, Zian went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19972025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Zian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 28,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,331
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zian 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zian was born before 2018 — so the typical Zian is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
898
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Choose a decade

2020s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (377).

Is Zian 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
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−193
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,031
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.76×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.2%
Peak was 2022 (73)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,081
2022

Spellings of Zian

Zian is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 22.1% against Zian's 0.02%.

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 Zian is used

Across 1910–2025, Zian was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 332,821 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Zian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zian around the world

Where Zian 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
    1999–2025
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #657
    in 2022
  • France
    1993–2025
    #1,884
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,331
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 193
Best rank ever
#2,081
2022
Peak year
2022
73 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
898
Count in 2025
60

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,086
2007
Peak year
2007
19 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Zian

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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