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Zian vs Ziana

American parents have registered 1,050 Zians since 1880, against 590 Zianas. Zian is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zian against Ziana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zian 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 30 years in which either name was published, Zian for 27 years and Ziana for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Zian Ziana
Total US births 1,050590
Most in one year 7336
Babies in 2025 6023
Estimated living today 1,000590
Median age today 910
Peak year 20222021
Best rank 2,060th boys4,014th girls
Rank in 2025 2,304th5,410th
First recorded 19971994
Girls / boys 152 / 898590 / 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.

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 Zian Ziana
France 5805
England and Wales 32374

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: Zian and Ziana.