boys:
1.2k births since 1910
#3369 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1910
#6501 (16th percentile)
The name Zenon is the #6,501 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,240 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 16.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,369 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,240 births since 1910.
Zenon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for boys in 1910). Birth data for Zenon is available in 111 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Zenon reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #515) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 29 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Zenon ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 24.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zenon".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Zenon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.3% confident that Zenon is pronounced as ZEE-nuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZEE-nahn, at 30.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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