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Zyon vs Zyonna

American parents have registered 5,045 Zyons since 1880, against 623 Zyonnas. Zyon is still ahead, with 254 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Zyon against Zyonna, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Zyon Zyonna

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

Zyon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Zyon had 144 and Zyonna had 39.

Side by side

  Zyon Zyonna
Total US births 5,045623
Most in one year 29239
Babies in 2025 25411
Estimated living today 5,000620
Median age today 1012
Peak year 20222014
Best rank 867th boys3,848th girls
Rank in 2025 943rd8,860th
First recorded 19951999
Girls / boys 720 / 4,325623 / 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 Zyonnas alive today are over 12; half the Zyons are over 10. That is 2 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: Zyon and Zyonna.