Zyan
#1,546 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zyan has been given to 2,074 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #1,546 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 159 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Zyan, 2025
1 in 29,600
Zyan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Zyan over time
In 2025, Zyan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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 Zyan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 29,600
- 112 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 15,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,546
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,518 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zyan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 20,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zyans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zyan was born before 2017 — so the typical Zyan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 39.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,749
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 39.4% of all recorded uses (689).
Is Zyan 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
- −297
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +231
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +864
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.07×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.4%
- Peak was 2024 (159)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.1% average annual change
Spellings of Zyan
Zyan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 21.4% against Zyan's 0.04%.
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 Zyan is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Zyan was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 18,072 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 7,692
- 2Florida1 in 9,091
- 3Georgia1 in 9,091
- 4New York1 in 10,000
- 5Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
- 6New Jersey1 in 16,667
- 7Texas1 in 20,000
- 8Alabama1 in 25,000
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.
Where Zyan is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Zyan was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 598,309 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 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. Zyan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Zyan around the world
Where Zyan 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 & Wales2005–2025#1,307in 2025
- Ireland2025–2025#676in 2025
- France2002–2025#1,426in 2025
- Canada2015–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Zyan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Zyan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zyan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.