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Zyair vs Zyan

American parents have registered 3,191 Zyairs since 1880, against 2,074 Zyans. Zyair is still ahead, with 340 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Zyair Zyan

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 31 years in which either name was published, Zyan for 18 years and Zyair for 13 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Zyair Zyan
Total US births 3,1912,074
Most in one year 397159
Babies in 2025 340112
Estimated living today 3,2002,100
Median age today 49
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 684th boys1,243rd boys
Rank in 2025 757th1,539th
First recorded 19921996
Girls / boys 142 / 3,049325 / 1,749

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 Zyans alive today are over 9; half the Zyairs are over 4. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Zyair Zyan
England and Wales 26191

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: Zyair and Zyan.