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Zyion vs Zyir

American parents have registered 1,597 Zyions since 1880, against 811 Zyirs. But in 2025 it was Zyir that was commoner, 55 babies to 48.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyion against Zyir, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyion Zyir

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 27 years in which either name was published, Zyion for 25 years and Zyir for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Zyion Zyir
Total US births 1,597811
Most in one year 11173
Babies in 2025 4855
Estimated living today 1,600810
Median age today 106
Peak year 20112024
Best rank 1,620th boys2,057th boys
Rank in 2025 2,676th2,451st
First recorded 19992004
Girls / boys 194 / 1,4030 / 811

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 Zyions alive today are over 10; half the Zyirs are over 6. That is 4 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.

Compare something else

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