girls:
36 births since 2004
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
27.1k births since 1915
#696 (85th percentile)
overall:
27.1k births since 1915
#1544 (80th percentile)
The name Zander is the #1,544 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27,090 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 80.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #696 (84.8% percentile) for all time with 27,054 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 2004.
Zander first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Zander is available in 38 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (38 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Zander has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zander reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 74.5% percentile (ranked #227) with 792 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 792 births per million (ranked 74.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zander ranks #334 for boys (63.4% percentile) with 505 births per million, which is 63.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zander reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #934) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zander".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Zander. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.4% confident that Zander is pronounced as ZAN-der, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZAHN-der, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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