girls:
17 births since 2003
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
170 births since 1988
#4416 (4th percentile)
overall:
187 births since 1988
#7552 (2nd percentile)
The name Zhi is the #7,552 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 187 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,416 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 170 births since 1988. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2003.
Zhi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Zhi is available in 22 out of the 32 years between 1988 and 2019 (22 years for boys and 3 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 Zhi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Zhi reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #811) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Zhi reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zhi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Zhi is pronounced as zhee, which has 1 syllables.
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