Zichen
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zichen has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 2014. 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 2016, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Zichen, 2020
1 in 371,000
Zichen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Zichen?
Zichen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 192,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,414 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zichen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,414 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zichen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zichens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zichen was born before 2017 — so the typical Zichen is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 80.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 46
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 80.4% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Zichen 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2016 (12)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.7% average annual change
Spellings of Zichen
Zichen is not the most common spelling — Michel is, with 99.6% against Zichen's 0.43%.
- Michel99.6%10,539
- Zichen0.43%46
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 Zichen is used
Across 1910–2025, Zichen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Zichen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zichen around the world
Where Zichen 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.
- Canada2017–2017#2,944in 2017
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zichen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zichen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zichen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.