Zohran

#3,753 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly bright

Zohran has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 2025. In 2025 it ranked #3,753 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Zohran, 2025

1 in 111,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zohran: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly bright

Urdu

What Zohran means

Zohran may mean “bright”, associated with زهران.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Uncertain. Likely a transliteration of Urdu زُہْران (zuhrān), or possibly ظُہْرَان (zuhrān)—both of Arabic origin, but most likely from Arabic زهران (“bright”) and Arabic أَزْهَر (ʔazhar, “radiant”). The Urdu variant زوہْرَان (zohrān) is considered a corruption.

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Origin, language, and formation

Zohran is used in English. Its origins include Urdu.

Zohran comes through Arabic زهران and Arabic أَزْهَر.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include زُہْران.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Zohran is pronounced /zəˈ(h)ɹɑːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 30 boys were recorded with the name Zohran between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,753 in 2025.

How common is Zohran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,753
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zohran 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zohran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zohrans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zohran was born before 2025 — so the typical Zohran is around 0 today.

Median birth year
2025
About 0 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
30
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Zohran 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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (30)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,753
2025

Spellings of Zohran

Zohran is not the most common spelling — Johan is, with 32.8% against Zohran's 0.07%.

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 Zohran is used

Across 1910–2025, Zohran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,563,045 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Zohran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Zohran around the world

Where Zohran 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
    2019–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2025
    #4,042
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Zohran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,753
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,753
2025
Peak year
2025
30 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Zohran

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Sibling names for Zohran

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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