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Zlatan

#8,236 in 2025Boys' name

Golden

Zlatan has been given to 240 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #8,236 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Zlatan, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zlatan: meaning, origin, and history

Golden

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zlatan means

Zlatan means “golden”, associated with zlátan.

Origin, language, and formation

Zlatan is used in Serbo-Croatian and Swedish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Zlatan is pronounced /zlǎtan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 240 boys were recorded with the name Zlatan between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,196 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,026 in 2020 to #8,236 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,739 in 2015 to #8,236 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 Zlatan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,236
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zlatan 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zlatan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zlatans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zlatan was born before 2017 — so the typical Zlatan is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
66.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
240
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 66.3% of all recorded uses (159).

Is Zlatan 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
−990
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,210
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,497
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 2016 (25)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,196
2016

Spellings of Zlatan

Zlatan is not the most common spelling — Lathan is, with 39.3% against Zlatan's 2.2%.

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 Zlatan is used

Across 1910–2025, Zlatan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,058,488 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Zlatan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zlatan around the world

Where Zlatan 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
    2017–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1984–2025
    #3,351
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #479
    in 1972

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.

Zlatan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,236
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,210
Best rank ever
#4,196
2016
Peak year
2016
25 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
240
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Zlatan

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

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Sibling names for Zlatan

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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