Zan
Last seen for girls in 1969 at #5,456 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to boys 85.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1950 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 659since 1916
Zan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | — | #12,239 | 5 | |
| 2022 | — | #9,823 | 7 | |
| 2021 | — | #8,166 | 9 | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | #12,145 | 5 | |
| 2018 | — | #12,156 | 5 | |
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
| 2012 | — | #9,709 | 7 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,079 | 9 | |
| 2010 | — | #8,139 | 9 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,800 | 15 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,763 | 12 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,520 | 20 | |
| 2005 | — | #9,115 | 7 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,007 | 16 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,276 | 19 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,044 | 20 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,942 | 8 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,200 | 8 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,836 | 7 | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #2,780 | 9 |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #2,665 | 10 |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #2,504 | 11 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | — | #2,530 | 11 | |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | #2,969 | 8 |
| 1955 | #3,571 | 11 | #2,764 | 9 |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | #2,592 | 10 |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | — | #2,438 | 10 | |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 | #3,298 | 6 |
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Zan! It came in at #3,516, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1927, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zan
- 1,653 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #8,910)
- 3,176 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #8,910)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1950 at #2,438 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1952, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 97,076 boys born in 2002 were named Zan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,438 in 1950, was only 1 in 179,026 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.5% of all boys named Zan (148) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1969, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,516 (1916) | #3,516 |
| 1920s | 11 | #3,697 (1928) | #3,949 |
| 1930s | 29 | #2,905 (1937) | #3,318 |
| 1940s | 33 | #2,534 (1946) | #3,083 |
| 1950s | 79 | #2,438 (1950) | #2,828 |
| 1960s | 80 | #2,504 (1962) | #2,936 |
| 1970s | 33 | #3,836 (1970) | #5,164 |
| 1980s | 52 | #3,805 (1985) | #4,964 |
| 1990s | 93 | #4,114 (1992) | #5,956 |
| 2000s | 148 | #4,044 (2002) | #5,648 |
| 2010s | 55 | #8,079 (2011) | #10,151 |
| 2020s | 40 | #7,257 (2024) | #9,279 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Zan in 1939
Top boys' names in 1939
More about 1939
boys
1,106,852 boys got a published name in 1939; 1 in 184,475 of them was named Zan, which outranked 21.5% of the 3,968 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).