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Zoha vs Zohran

American parents have registered 1,108 Zohas since 1880, against 30 Zohrans. Zoha is still ahead, with 51 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zoha Zohran

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

Zoha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1993 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Zoha had 51 and Zohran had 30.

Side by side

  Zoha Zohran
Total US births 1,10830
Most in one year 6230
Babies in 2025 5130
Estimated living today 1,10030
Median age today 110
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 2,756th girls3,658th boys
Rank in 2025 3,130th3,658th
First recorded 19932025
Girls / boys 1,108 / 00 / 30

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 Zohas alive today are over 11; half the Zohrans have not had a first birthday. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Zoha Zohran
England and Wales 1,04429
France 9025

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.

Compare something else

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