girls:
325 births since 1998
#5391 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1996
#3173 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1996
#5952 (23rd percentile)
The name Zyan is the #5,952 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,802 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 23.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,173 (30.8% percentile) for all time with 1,477 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,391 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1998.
Zyan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 1998 for girls).
The name Zyan has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Zyan were boys.
For boys, Zyan reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 12.1% percentile (ranked #801) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 63 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Zyan is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #801 (12.1% percentile) with 63 births per million.
For girls, Zyan reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #960) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zyan".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Zyan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.4% confident that Zyan is pronounced as ZAI-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zyahn, at 11.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like Z AY1 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.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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