Zhi

Last seen for girls in 2009 at #13,704 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to boys 91.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
2001 · 19 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
176
since 1988

Zhi over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202004peak #4,121, 2001girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2025
2024#10,9386
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2019#12,1455
2018#9,6707
2017#8,8408
2016#12,1855
2015#10,6446
2014#7,56210
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2011#12,2875
2010#10,7666
2009#13,7047#10,9946
2008#9,0198
2007#17,6365#8,9158
2006#7,42710
2005#9,1157
2004#7,5369
2003#15,7845#7,2459
2002#6,52210
2001#4,12119
2000#8,2097
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1997#6,6188
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First appearance
1988

The first year at least five boys were named Zhi! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1988–1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Zhi
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1988
  • Peaked 2001 at #4,121 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 2003, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 102,257
  • Highest: 1 in 102,257 boys born in 2001 were named Zhi (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 287,148 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 52.8% of all boys named Zhi (93) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
  • Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#7,270 (1988)#7,270
1990s20#6,618 (1997)#7,731
2000s93#4,121 (2001)#7,910
2010s52#7,562 (2014)#10,512
2020s6#10,938 (2024)#10,938

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.

Zhi in 2004

boys
#7,536
9 births · 1 in 220,553 boys

Top boys' names in 2004

  1. #1Jacob27,911
  2. #2Michael25,470
  3. #3Joshua24,214
  4. #4Matthew22,882
  5. #5Ethan22,210
  6. #6Andrew21,717
  7. #7Daniel21,018
  8. #8William20,237
  9. #9Joseph20,147
  10. #10Christopher19,636
  11. #7,536Zhi9
More about 2004

boys

1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 220,553 of them was named Zhi, which outranked 43.0% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zhi
  1. #6,976Zubair10
  2. #6,976Zuhair10
  3. #6,976Zyair10
  4. #7,536Zhi9
  5. #7,536Aadam9
  6. #7,536Aaiden9
  7. #7,536Aalijah9
  8. #8,143Aashay8
  9. #8,143Abass8
  10. #8,143Abdiaziz8

Tied with 606 names at #7,536; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2003
Risers
  1. 1,308Koda#2,238#930
  2. 1,190Tayshaun#2,153#963
  3. 1,006Kanye#1,492#486
  4. 910Kyan#1,497#587
  5. 814Jaidyn#1,630#816
Fallers
  1. 455Jahiem#873#1,328
  2. 325Ervin#942#1,267
  3. 323Jahir#809#1,132
  4. 282Jaheim#457#739
  5. 270Sabastian#946#1,216

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2004