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Zhane vs Zharia

American parents have registered 2,362 Zhanes since 1880, against 1,020 Zharias. Zhane is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zhane against Zharia, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zhane Zharia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 33 years in which either name was published, Zhane for 31 years and Zharia for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Zhane Zharia
Total US births 2,3621,020
Most in one year 39184
Babies in 2025 2413
Estimated living today 2,3001,000
Median age today 2621
Peak year 19942000
Best rank 582nd girls1,985th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860th7,885th
First recorded 19931995
Girls / boys 1,954 / 4081,020 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Zhanes alive today are over 26; half the Zharias are over 21. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Zhane and Zharia.