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Zeeshan

About 613 American babies have been named Zeeshan since 1979, most of them around 2003. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 600 Zeeshans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Zeeshan

By the numbers

Total US births
613
Estimated living today
600
Median age today
19
Peak year
2003
Best rank
3,280th
Rank in 2025
8,243rd
First recorded
1979

How old the living Zeeshans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 613 babies given the name since 1979, about 600 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Zeeshan is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2003

The most popular boys’ names the year Zeeshan peaked:

All the names of 2003

Zeeshan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Zeeshan 1,141 476th
France boys Zeeshan 60 2,804th
Scotland boys Zeeshan 9 288th
Ireland boys Zeeshan 3 720th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Zeeshan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Zeeshan 10 15

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Zeeshan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 520 men called Zeeshan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Barcelona Zeeshan 259 0.089 736
Rioja, La Zeeshan 8 0.050 1,103
Tarragona Zeeshan 21 0.048 1,272
Valencia/València Zeeshan 55 0.041 1,372
Lleida Zeeshan 7 0.030 1,847
Gipuzkoa Zeeshan 10 0.028 1,556

Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Zeeshan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.