Zion
#2,017 for girls in 2025, 94 births · #142 for boys in 2025, 2,496 births
Given to boys 87.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 2,889 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 46,871since 1917
Zion 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 | #2,017 | 94 | #142 | 2,496 |
| 2024 | #1,895 | 105 | #151 | 2,369 |
| 2023 | #1,595 | 131 | #125 | 2,889 |
| 2022 | #1,540 | 139 | #143 | 2,634 |
| 2021 | #1,432 | 150 | #136 | 2,769 |
| 2020 | #1,227 | 186 | #143 | 2,536 |
| 2019 | #1,164 | 205 | #153 | 2,551 |
| 2018 | #1,039 | 248 | #180 | 2,183 |
| 2017 | #923 | 287 | #199 | 1,978 |
| 2016 | #921 | 298 | #213 | 1,849 |
| 2015 | #892 | 309 | #227 | 1,694 |
| 2014 | #909 | 298 | #254 | 1,484 |
| 2013 | #820 | 328 | #236 | 1,531 |
| 2012 | #776 | 354 | #235 | 1,533 |
| 2011 | #612 | 472 | #245 | 1,456 |
| 2010 | #690 | 414 | #229 | 1,530 |
| 2009 | #734 | 394 | #240 | 1,473 |
| 2008 | #694 | 435 | #230 | 1,601 |
| 2007 | #575 | 524 | #234 | 1,553 |
| 2006 | #811 | 337 | #265 | 1,302 |
| 2005 | #985 | 248 | #293 | 1,120 |
| 2004 | #1,082 | 212 | #311 | 1,008 |
| 2003 | #1,439 | 137 | #329 | 879 |
| 2002 | #1,510 | 125 | #333 | 828 |
| 2001 | #1,340 | 143 | #324 | 867 |
| 2000 | #1,255 | 156 | #300 | 1,004 |
| 1999 | #1,164 | 167 | #274 | 1,070 |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 | #694 | 242 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | #1,499 | 70 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 | #1,599 | 61 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,055 | 40 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #2,181 | 37 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,641 | 27 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #2,362 | 31 |
| 1991 | — | #3,325 | 18 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,521 | 13 | |
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| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,403 | 8 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Zion! It came in at #3,545, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Zion
- 9 spots since 2024 (#151 → #142)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#143 → #142)
- 85 spots since 2015 (#227 → #142)
- Biggest jump: 805 spots in 1998 (#1,499 → #694)
- Biggest drop: 26 spots in 2000 (#274 → #300)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2023 at #125 (2,889 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 592 boys born in 2023 were named Zion (0.17%)
- Latest: 1 in 684 boys born in 2025 (0.15%)
- 38.0% of all boys named Zion (17,789) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,545 (1917) | #3,545 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 57 | #2,946 (1974) | #4,119 |
| 1980s | 86 | #3,521 (1987) | #4,384 |
| 1990s | 1,605 | #274 (1999) | #2,201 |
| 2000s | 11,635 | #230 (2008) | #286 |
| 2010s | 17,789 | #153 (2019) | #217 |
| 2020s | 15,693 | #125 (2023) | #140 |
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.
Zion in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 344,166 of them was named Zion, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,828 names at #10,677; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 205,357 of them was named Zion, which outranked 42.9% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,052Zacheriah10
- #4,052Zebedee10
- #4,052Zeeshan10
- #4,333Zion9
- #4,333Aakash9
- #4,333Aaryn9
- #4,333Abelino9
- #4,698Abdulla8
- #4,698Abrahan8
- #4,698Adrin8
Tied with 364 names at #4,333; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.