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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Zion is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#30 · 1 in 127
- South Carolina#90 · 1 in 369
- Maryland#95 · 1 in 384
- Hawaii#96 · 1 in 343
- Delaware#111 · 1 in 365
Best ever in a state: #24 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #30 | 32 | 1 in 127 |
| South Carolina | #90 | 57 | 1 in 369 |
| Maryland | #95 | 73 | 1 in 384 |
| Hawaii | #96 | 14 | 1 in 343 |
| Delaware | #111 | 10 | 1 in 365 |
| Georgia | #137 | 94 | 1 in 585 |
| Florida | #142 | 144 | 1 in 639 |
| North Carolina | #149 | 79 | 1 in 644 |
| Virginia | #151 | 59 | 1 in 700 |
| Pennsylvania | #168 | 77 | 1 in 791 |
| New Jersey | #187 | 46 | 1 in 922 |
| New York | #205 | 95 | 1 in 1,099 |
| Ohio | #212 | 57 | 1 in 1,047 |
| Mississippi | #218 | 14 | 1 in 992 |
| Louisiana | #236 | 22 | 1 in 1,078 |
| Alabama | #245 | 19 | 1 in 1,206 |
| Connecticut | #250 | 11 | 1 in 1,330 |
| Tennessee | #251 | 28 | 1 in 1,244 |
| Missouri | #260 | 26 | 1 in 1,245 |
| Michigan | #268 | 36 | 1 in 1,341 |
| Massachusetts | #272 | 19 | 1 in 1,579 |
| Illinois | #282 | 47 | 1 in 1,442 |
| Kentucky | #293 | 14 | 1 in 1,584 |
| Indiana | #304 | 24 | 1 in 1,501 |
| California | #314 | 123 | 1 in 1,873 |
| Washington | #336 | 21 | 1 in 1,711 |
| Wisconsin | #339 | 15 | 1 in 1,822 |
| Iowa | #345 | 9 | 1 in 1,673 |
| Nevada | #346 | 8 | 1 in 1,671 |
| Texas | #351 | 85 | 1 in 2,059 |
| Minnesota | #380 | 13 | 1 in 2,167 |
| Idaho | #387 | 5 | 1 in 1,630 |
| New Mexico | #390 | 5 | 1 in 1,909 |
| Oregon | #422 | 8 | 1 in 2,273 |
| Arizona | #432 | 14 | 1 in 2,620 |
| Colorado | #433 | 11 | 1 in 2,463 |
| Arkansas | #454 | 6 | 1 in 2,418 |
| Oklahoma | #479 | 8 | 1 in 2,543 |
| Utah | #529 | 7 | 1 in 3,056 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 3,727 of them was named Zion, which outranked 96.9% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 1,304 of them was named Zion, which outranked 98.3% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.