girls:
152 births since 1999
#5564 (3rd percentile)
boys:
777 births since 1997
#3810 (17th percentile)
overall:
929 births since 1997
#6810 (12th percentile)
The name Zian is the #6,810 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 929 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 12.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,810 (16.9% percentile) for all time with 777 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,564 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 152 births since 1999.
Zian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 1999 for girls).
The name Zian has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Zian were boys.
For boys, Zian reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #856) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 39 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zian is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #846 (7.1% percentile) with 38 births per million.
For girls, Zian reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #973) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zian".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Zian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.7% confident that Zian is pronounced as ZEE-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ZAI-uhn, at 38.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like Z IY1 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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