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 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
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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.
Where Zan is popular in 1954
No state had 5 or more boys named Zan in 1954, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1954
Top girls' names in 1954
Top boys' names in 1954
More about 1954
girls
1,941,915 girls got a published name in 1954; 1 in 242,739 of them was named Zan, which outranked 35.4% of the 6,625 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,967Winda9
- #3,967Wyona9
- #3,967Zelinda9
- #4,278Zan8
- #4,278Adonna8
- #4,278Adriene8
- #4,278Alaina8
- #4,655Aaron7
- #4,655Adonica7
- #4,655Aide7
Tied with 376 names at #4,278; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 203,875 of them was named Zan, which outranked 40.6% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,449Wray11
- #2,449York11
- #2,449Zeb11
- #2,592Zan10
- #2,592Abundio10
- #2,592Adolf10
- #2,592Alice10
- #2,743Abdul9
- #2,743Abelino9
- #2,743Abran9
Tied with 150 names at #2,592; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 504Arlin#878 → #1,382
- ↓ 347Adan#895 → #1,242
- ↓ 345Dayton#966 → #1,311
- ↓ 302Garey#966 → #1,268
- ↓ 293Bartholomew#975 → #1,268
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.