Meaning not yet researched.
Zion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,496 in 2025. Its best rank was #125 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #125 in 2023; #142 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Zion in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#142 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #125.
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Zion: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,496 boys in 2025. Peak: #125 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 2,889 (2023).
In 2025, 2,496 US boys were named Zion, making it the 142nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 10 places from #152 in 2024. That is 127 more than the 2,369 boys named Zion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #125, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,889. For comparison, it was #227 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Zion, making it the 2,035th most common girls’ name of the year, down 123 places from #1,912 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 105 girls named Zion in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #575, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 524. For comparison, it was #895 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zion in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 53,897 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 21,002 babies named Zion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,254 US boys were named Zion; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 2,889. In 2025 that was about 1 in 684 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zion ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #62 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Zyon (5,045 babies since 1880), Cian (3,751 babies since 1880), Zen (3,313 babies since 1880) and Zyan (2,074 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sione, Ziyon and Ziyan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Sione (1,510), Ziyon (985), Ziyan (438), Siyon (156), Zyen (147), Ciin (115), Zyonn (114), Zihan (108), Zyian (98), Ziaan (87), Zyien (72), Syion (67), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Zion in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 14 | #62 | #70 |
| New Mexico | 22 | #87 | #233 |
| Maryland | 55 | #104 | #126 |
| Nevada | 31 | #104 | #188 |
| Florida | 211 | #106 | #142 |
| Georgia | 107 | #109 | #138 |
| Alaska | 8 | #109 | — |
| Massachusetts | 63 | #117 | #345 |
| Vermont | 5 | #121 | — |
| Rhode Island | 10 | #124 | #150 |
| Pennsylvania | 100 | #128 | #180 |
| Louisiana | 39 | #131 | #189 |
| New York | 145 | #132 | #210 |
| Arkansas | 27 | #133 | #292 |
| Arizona | 66 | #134 | #307 |
| Michigan | 75 | #135 | #287 |
| Mississippi | 24 | #138 | #245 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | #138 | #121 |
| Delaware | 8 | #141 | #157 |
| Oregon | 29 | #142 | #376 |
| Washington | 57 | #146 | #364 |
| Colorado | 50 | #146 | #377 |
| California | 263 | #147 | #268 |
| Nebraska | 19 | #149 | #506 |
| Texas | 261 | #149 | #260 |
| Alabama | 39 | #150 | #236 |
| Oklahoma | 32 | #152 | #277 |
| Virginia | 59 | #153 | #216 |
| North Carolina | 84 | #155 | #172 |
| New Jersey | 64 | #156 | #194 |
| Connecticut | 22 | #164 | #205 |
| Ohio | 78 | #171 | #266 |
| Minnesota | 38 | #177 | #427 |
| Missouri | 40 | #180 | #264 |
| Illinois | 65 | #183 | #200 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #187 | #135 |
| Tennessee | 50 | #188 | #197 |
| Iowa | 22 | #190 | #415 |
| Kentucky | 30 | #192 | #318 |
| Indiana | 40 | #214 | #242 |
| Kansas | 19 | #218 | #298 |
| Utah | 24 | #224 | #477 |
| Wisconsin | 26 | #234 | #397 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #253 | — |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #264 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #266 | — |
| South Dakota | 5 | #303 | — |
| Idaho | 6 | #434 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,035 | 2,496 | #142 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,912 | 2,369 | #152 |
| 2023 | 131 | #1,602 | 2,889 | #125 |
| 2022 | 139 | #1,547 | 2,634 | #143 |
| 2021 | 150 | #1,440 | 2,769 | #136 |
| 2020 | 186 | #1,230 | 2,536 | #143 |
| 2019 | 205 | #1,169 | 2,551 | #153 |
| 2018 | 248 | #1,042 | 2,183 | #181 |
| 2017 | 287 | #924 | 1,978 | #199 |
| 2016 | 298 | #927 | 1,849 | #213 |
| 2015 | 309 | #895 | 1,694 | #227 |
| 2014 | 298 | #910 | 1,484 | #254 |
| 2013 | 328 | #822 | 1,531 | #236 |
| 2012 | 354 | #778 | 1,533 | #235 |
| 2011 | 472 | #613 | 1,456 | #245 |
| 2010 | 414 | #691 | 1,530 | #229 |
| 2009 | 394 | #736 | 1,473 | #240 |
| 2008 | 435 | #695 | 1,601 | #230 |
| 2007 | 524 | #575 | 1,553 | #234 |
| 2006 | 337 | #811 | 1,302 | #265 |
| 2005 | 248 | #988 | 1,120 | #293 |
| 2004 | 212 | #1,085 | 1,008 | #311 |
| 2003 | 137 | #1,445 | 879 | #329 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,519 | 828 | #333 |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,347 | 867 | #324 |
| 2000 | 156 | #1,261 | 1,004 | #300 |
| 1999 | 167 | #1,168 | 1,070 | #274 |
| 1998 | 43 | #3,013 | 242 | #695 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,816 | 70 | #1,508 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,064 | 61 | #1,615 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,762 | 40 | #2,101 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,121 | 37 | #2,218 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,795 | 27 | #2,696 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,477 | 31 | #2,411 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,461 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,819 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,361 | 9 | #5,614 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,160 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,730 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,503 | 9 | #4,697 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,313 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,139 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,964 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #4,152 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,246 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,841 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,155 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,581 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,934 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,308 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,119 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,876 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,980 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).