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Ziad vs Ziana

American parents have registered 1,115 Ziads since 1880, against 590 Zianas. Ziad is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ziad against Ziana, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ziad Ziana

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 52 years in which either name was published, Ziad for 48 years and Ziana for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Ziad Ziana
Total US births 1,115590
Most in one year 4436
Babies in 2025 4323
Estimated living today 1,100590
Median age today 1610
Peak year 20192021
Best rank 2,808th boys4,014th girls
Rank in 2025 2,884th5,410th
First recorded 19741994
Girls / boys 0 / 1,115590 / 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 Ziads alive today are over 16; half the Zianas are over 10. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ziad Ziana
France 2,2955
England and Wales 26274

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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