Zen
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #1,141 for boys in 2025, 185 births
Given to boys 82.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 256 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,718since 1969
Zen 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 | #3,517 | 43 | #1,141 | 185 |
| 2024 | #3,695 | 41 | #955 | 238 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #935 | 242 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 | #905 | 256 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 | #1,182 | 166 |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | #1,196 | 160 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | #1,386 | 128 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #1,521 | 112 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | #1,707 | 92 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 | #1,959 | 74 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 | #1,931 | 75 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #1,714 | 88 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #2,113 | 63 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #2,292 | 56 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #2,105 | 63 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #1,990 | 70 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,932 | 74 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #2,442 | 52 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | — | #2,325 | 50 | |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #2,238 | 51 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #2,620 | 38 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #2,632 | 36 |
| 2001 | — | #2,520 | 38 | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #2,805 | 32 |
| 1999 | — | #2,722 | 31 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #2,599 | 32 |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,052 | 15 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zen! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zen
- 186 spots since 2024 (#955 → #1,141)
- 55 spots since 2020 (#1,196 → #1,141)
- 790 spots since 2015 (#1,931 → #1,141)
- Biggest jump: 277 spots in 2022 (#1,182 → #905)
- Biggest drop: 186 spots in 2025 (#955 → #1,141)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2022 at #905 (256 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2022–2024
- Highest: 1 in 6,820 boys born in 2022 were named Zen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,233 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 45.9% of all boys named Zen (1,247) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 11 | #5,525 (1980) | #6,715 |
| 1990s | 152 | #2,599 (1998) | #4,725 |
| 2000s | 492 | #1,932 (2008) | #2,390 |
| 2010s | 811 | #1,386 (2019) | #1,892 |
| 2020s | 1,247 | #905 (2022) | #1,052 |
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.
Zen in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 316,868 of them was named Zen, which outranked 24.5% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,606Zunaira7
- #13,606Zuriah7
- #13,606Zyanah7
- #15,152Zen6
- #15,152Aaisha6
- #15,152Aalivia6
- #15,152Aaliyan6
- #17,168Aadi5
- #17,168Aailyah5
- #17,168Aalanah5
Tied with 2,015 names at #15,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 40,299 of them was named Zen, which outranked 82.9% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,375Zackariah52
- #2,375Zakariya52
- #2,375Zavian52
- #2,398Zen51
- #2,398Aarush51
- #2,398Abelardo51
- #2,398Abiel51
- #2,449Akil50
- #2,449Aleksandar50
- #2,449Alston50
Tied with 50 names at #2,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.