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Zhane

Zhane is a girl's name that peaked in 1994, when it was the 582nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,860th. About 2,300 Zhanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Zhane boys named Zhane

Girls and boys called Zhane

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,954 girls and 408 boys in all, and in 2022 the split was 13 to 16.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 30 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,362
Estimated living today
2,300
Median age today
26
Peak year
1994
Best rank
582nd
Rank in 2025
8,860th
First recorded
1993
Girls / boys
1,954 / 408

How old the living Zhanes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,362 babies given the name since 1993, about 2,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 550 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 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 Zhane is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Zhane is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.0×), Virginia (2.9×), Georgia (2.3×), Florida (2.2×).

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

Names of 1994

The most popular girls’ names the year Zhane peaked:

All the names of 1994

Zhane elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Zhane 167 750th
England and Wales boys Zhane 10 3,822nd

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.

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Zhane 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.