girls:
564 births since 1919
#5152 (10th percentile)
boys:
54.5k births since 1914
#467 (90th percentile)
overall:
55k births since 1914
#1015 (87th percentile)
The name Zane is the #1,015 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,030 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 86.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #467 (89.8% percentile) for all time with 54,466 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,152 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 564 births since 1919.
Zane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1919 for girls).
The name Zane has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zane reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 78.7% percentile (ranked #195) with 1,044 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 1,044 births per million (ranked 78.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zane ranks #267 for boys (70.8% percentile) with 666 births per million, which is 63.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zane reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #829) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Zane ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 69.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zane".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Zane is pronounced as zayn, which has 1 syllables.
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