girls:
19 births since 2008
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
126 births since 2008
#4460 (3rd percentile)
overall:
145 births since 2008
#7594 (2nd percentile)
The name Zhyon is the #7,594 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 145 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,460 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 126 births since 2008. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2008.
Zhyon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 . Birth data for Zhyon is available in 14 out of the 16 years between 2008 and 2023 (14 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 Zhyon has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Zhyon were boys.
For boys, Zhyon reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #903) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zhyon ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 63.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Zhyon reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% 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 "Zhyon".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Zhyon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.5% confident that Zhyon is pronounced as ZHAI-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZHEE-uhn, at 12.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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